Thousands of UEFA officials have been given a free pass to avoid travel quarantine rules when travelling to the U.K. to watch Euro 2020 matches, but fans are given no such leeway. England supporters have been told not to travel to Rome this weekend to watch the quarter-final match against Ukraine, with a minister saying – in a teacher-to-pupil-like fashion – stay home and “challenge [yourselves to make the players] hear us from Rome”. Sky News has more.
The Three Lions beat Germany last night to set up a showdown in Rome with Ukraine – but travel restrictions mean most England fans will not be able to soak up the atmosphere – and the summer heat – in the Eternal City.
Italy is on the U.K.’s “Amber List”, and all U.K. arrivals in Italy currently have to isolate for five days.
Speaking to Sky News, Government Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan called on England fans to “watch from home and to cheer on the team as loudly as you can”.
“Obviously it is very difficult not to smile just to see all those wonderful flags waving, it just makes you so proud of our team doing so well last night,” she said.
“But really, the ask is to watch from home and to cheer on the team as loudly as you can.
“I think the challenge is can they hear us from Rome? And I’m sure we’ll take up that opportunity to be as supportive as we can of our amazing England team.” …
Those visiting Italy must have proof of a negative coronavirus test taken in the 48 hours before they travel.
Upon arrival, all passengers from the U.K. must fill out a passenger locator form before completing five days of isolation.
If they have proof of a negative Covid test, a traveller can be released after those five days.
However, this means even if fans board a flight to Italy on Wednesday, they will still have to isolate until at least Sunday – likely having to watch the game from a hotel room.
The Government’s travel rules mean fans would have to isolate again upon returning to the U.K..
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Is it worth reading in full?
First, it’s about Wendyball, therefore inherently uninteresting to adults.
Second, it’s just another example of the New Normal. Ever changing rules, random prohibitions on activities, we’re all in it together (well, you peasants are), just another few days/weeks/months/years.
I have no interest in football – hadn’t even clocked that Ingerland had won yesterday.
… but if people don’t grasp the stupidity of this – matching the pub sanction of the virus flying above 5 feet and inhabiting pissoirs – then they are truly thick.
I have mo interest in football either. However, this is the perfect opportunity for those notoriously feisty footie fans to show some courage. It will be infectious and we at home will fully support them. This Government is showing their Bolshevik game. If we do not grow some backbone and fight these ridiculous rules, we will be laughed at, abused and suppressed for the foreseeable future.
Quite. If the marching morons don’t wake up NOW, they never will.
Cheer loud enough they hear us in Rome?
But I thought cheering and singing spread Covid?
Whoops……reverse ferret shortly.
Terrefying.
Brava!
Football singing is apparently fine. It’s just choirs that aren’t allowed to sing instead.
Obviously it depends what you sing, England fans at the Germany match have been called out by the woke media for innapropriate singing. Not sure what they were singing, but “2 world wars and one world cup” used to be a favourite, along with humming the theme tune to damn busters or the great escape.
Mostly it was ‘Sweet Caroline’ the other night.
Ten German bombers maybe? A great favourite.
I am very angry that the football officials and G7 can waltz over here without any restrictions but we are forced to adhere to their rules. This cannot go on and it is totally unacceptable!
Oh but, oh but they are rich and make significant economic contributions to U.K. plc. We little people don’t have a say and just provide all the taxes for them to spend!!!! Yes, we should all be very, very angry.
…and they think they are important people so the rules don’t apply to them, only the unwashed plebs.
Oh, I think you’ll accept it. What are you doing to do about it?
“This cannot go on and it is totally unacceptable!”
I sense a stiff letter to The Times coming on
The players don’t need to quarantine, neither do the match officials, any of the travelling circus; including FA officials, coaches, no doubt the TV people are exempt too.
The only people required to quarantine are the supporters.
Remind me why people are watching this? I gave up watching all sport last year because it exemplifies the exact hypocrisy we are living under; everyone involved in it can carry on as normal, travel the world, no restrictions etc, but for everyone else it’s sit there, don’t move, stay still, don’t even think about questioning it blah blah blah.
Stop watching sport if you want your freedoms back or at least if you want to protest this New Normal BS.
I stopped following football when it became a religion.
I went to one of the few schools where football and not rugby was the default. In consequence, I hate the wretched game with a vengeance.
I think it’s shown on the BBC with that self-regarding, overpaid prat Lineker (who got cross with my old alma mater when his son didn’t get enough A-levels for uni), and I don’t watch anything “Beeb”; least of all, football.
Wow, a school that awarded A Levles on ability, not reflected fame? Those were the days!
Also a nice reflection that even if you’re a BBC drone, being paid millions of pounds of licence fee money and thus able to afford the school fees which I think were about £25k p.a., there are still some people and institutions who will not kowtow to you, even when you stamp your expensive foot.
Yep Lineker is a vastly overrated and overpaid twat.
Great, now I know there are more than me. Time BBC employers started looking for new jobs. Their present employment is finished
You can go back to football now. The new religion is Covidianism.
Which one requires human sacrifices?
We now have a clash between the football religion and the covid cult. No fan of football but, in this case, I do hope it comes out on top in this unholy war.
I stopped supporting England when they started “taking the knee” frankly I hope they lose and rot in Hell. Tossers.
Inner party members are better than the proles.
Look out for the black overalls.
‘Proles are not human beings,’ said Syme, casually.
It’s because it’s a tribal activity. You gotta support the Reds, right, only wankas and puffs don’t buy the strips.
England play in white.
No, I won’t read this horseshit in full.
When uefa officials, g7 leaders, a shit uk statistician, a (shit) uk gov adviser, our own sodding health minister, various US states, several countries etc etc – when they all know that covidworld is one big lie – then who gives a toss what some meretricious govt wonk says?
Anyone supporting the Kneelers is supporting getting politically lectured by idiots, under the guise of watching sport.
Get politics out of sport.
…and exactly in what clown-riding-a-rainbow-unicorn world are respiratory viruses even a thing in summer!?
If the oiks cannot see through the SCAM as a result of all these dual rules we are truly fucked.
England Fans Told Not to Travel to Rome for Quarter-Final Match*
*ᴺᵒᵗ ᵃᵖᵖˡᶦᶜᵃᵇˡᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵁᴱᶠᴬ ᴼᶠᶠᶦᶜᶦᵃˡˢ ᵒʳ ᴳᵒᵛᵉʳⁿᵐᵉⁿᵗ ᴹᶦⁿᶦˢᵗᵉʳˢ, ʷʰᵒ ᵃʳᵉ ᶦᵐᵐᵘⁿᵉ ᵗᵒ ᶜᴼⱽᴵᴰ-¹⁹, ᵇᵘᵗ ᵒⁿˡʸ ᵈᵘʳᶦⁿᵍ ᴱᵘʳᵒᵖᵉᵃⁿ ᶜʰᵃᵐᵖᶦᵒⁿˢʰᶦᵖ ᵍᵃᵐᵉˢ.
Great reset.
Rules for the many, not the few.
When we annexe the Ukraine on Saturday and their fans are all sad I’ll be like “yeah, crimea river”
Groan…
Some people on here are elitists, and demonstrate all the contempt for mass culture we see from our political leaders. . If you want to build a coalition against lockdown then start pointing out exactly how mass sports like football are controlled and constrained as far as crowds go yet tennis is allowed cheek by jowl crowds . Let’s stop thinking that everyone who hates the lockdown is a Tory Brexiteer. We are a diverse group of sceptics some left libertarians like me others on the right mso let’s be less sectarian. I say that as a Scot who regularly sees anti Scottish bile on here. Plenty of us Scots are scunnered by Sturgeon and her lockdown loving dentist of doom Jason Leitch, and the cast of behavioural grifters and limelight huggers who support them. I will be supporting England now they won’t be playing Sweden, and hope the fans turn up en masse.
Well said! Ironic it is that those pushing ‘diversity’ will allow nothing of the sort in their own little world.
Far, far worse, the MCC are insisting on vaccine passports to get into the pavilion at Lord’s for the England/Pakistan match…….
Marmalade all over the place……
Wimbledon on the box, the unmasked cheek by jowl. Do they also have vaccine passes?
What about Ascot the other week?
I think even the masses at least look at these gatherings. Are the howls of rage just not being reported or are the public too stupid to care?
Erm…..well……at the MCC…….tumbleweed……….
How bloody patronising. But of course she’s a politician and we’re the proles so it goes without saying
The Pig Dictator and his dad and girlfriend’s Klaus project will start to unravel.. for the simplest of reasons… the mess and inconsistency.. oh what a tangled crappy web we weave when we practise to deceive…
Those wonderfully awkward fans need to show their metal and go down to Italy. Do not bother to isolate and cheer our team on. They cannot arrest a few thousand fans. If they do they will create martyrs and we can support them from UK. It is time we took back control.
Personally loathe feetball. However I hope many many fans go to Rome and then turn their phones off when they get back so as to ignore the pestering harassment from T&T. Unfortunately the negative flip side of this is that it continues to fill the already burgeoning coffers of the owners of the PCR testing businesses.
“already burgeoning coffers of the owners of the PCR testing businesses.”
How about the next protest be outside the homes of these owners?
If you’re a fan you should absolutely go and support your team. F**k the government and their BS rules.
Non-compliance is the only way forward.
It’s embarrassing how stupid some Government ministers can sound when they are answering a question upon which they have no interest and no knowledge. Her answer translated means ‘F*ck off and leave me alone, I am busy’
These awful people who are running the world are sucking the joy out of life. How can we get rid of them? Genuine question
We can’t. Simple as that. We’ve allowed them to suck the joy out of life bit by bit for at least the last 50 years, so they’re not about to stop now. It’s been mentioned by me and others a few times- once you accept that the government can tell you what to do or not do ‘for your own good’, then you are no longer free. So for example- not allowing shops to display tobacco products may seem trivial, but if you accept this, (that a shop owner can’t display what they likes in their own premises and that you are too feeble minded to make a rational decision so can’t be allowed to see such things), you can’t argue with anything else that they deem necessary. Most people born this century would surely struggle with true freedom and responsibility- it just isn’t part of life anymore.
Waste of time getting vaccinated then wasn’t it!!!
Yes.
are they still kneeling to Marxism?–i don’t have a telly so cannot watch them:-(
Yep- same with F1. Utter madness and anyone with any backbone and a shred of self respect would tell them to do one.
Unreal- they’re not even pretending ‘we’re all in it together’ now are they? It’s just a case of we can do what we like you diseased, racist peasant- now shut up and go away. I can’t watch my son’s sports day, ( for reasons that still haven’t been made clear to me- it’s outside for goodness sake), but UEFA top brass can come and go as they please. Why do they need to come, out of interest? If businesses can hold meetings via Zoom, etc., then surely these overpaid windbags can too? What is it they do that is so critical it means that they just have to be here?