Officials have gone a step further in preventing England fans from seeing the Euro 2020 quarter-final match against Ukraine in Rome this weekend, telling supporters who have recently arrived in Italy that they won’t be allowed in the stadium – even if they have a ticket. Sky News has the story.
A statement issued by the Italian Embassy in London on Thursday said that due to current coronavirus restrictions in the country, “anybody who has been in the U.K. in the previous 14 days, irrespective of their nationality or residency, will not be admitted to the stadium, even if they have a ticket”.
Italy is on the U.K.’s “Amber List”, and all U.K. arrivals in Italy currently have to isolate for five days.
The statement continued: “Only those who can prove that they have arrived in Italy at least six days previously, have observed five days of quarantine, and have taken a post-quarantine Covid test with a negative result will be allowed into the Stadio Olimpico.
“Being exempt from quarantine in Italy for any legal reason, will not translate into permission to enter the stadium. For example, travellers who are transiting through Italy for less than 36 hours or visiting briefly for work reasons are not required to quarantine, but they will not be permitted to enter the stadium.”
Anyone found to be not in quarantine “will be punished”, officials said.
“Fans based in the U.K. should therefore not travel to Italy to attend the match on Saturday at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome,” they added. …
The fresh travel warning comes after the FA said on Wednesday that it “will not be selling any tickets via the England Supporters Travel Club for this fixture” due to U.K. and Italian travel restrictions.
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You mean they will not be able to see their heroes take the knee
How sad
Puke nasty shits watched by puke nasty shits
Football lost it’s way since knee length baggy shorts a short back and sides leather studs and a woodbine at arf -time… oh and ‘shin pads’
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We need a new law that allows us to split politicians who take away basic freedoms into multiple less harmful chunks.
We have far too many laws as it is, they act only to transfer power to the unelected judiciary. Freedom resides in the silence of the law.
If I said what I said without wrapping it in the idea that it should be a law I’d be open to prosecution.
By rights the whole coalition government and its pathetic lackey MPs should be open to prosecution after the last 15 months of locking down the nation, but justice and the law don’t always align.
What then? We haven’t wished to embrace lawlessness, but in stripping away once inalienable civil liberties the executive is leaving us little choice.
What are you wittering about?
The problem we have at the moment is with the elected and the insufficiency of legal protection for the individual.
No it isn’t. The Lawmakers are hardly going to legislate against themselves. Then we get those like yesterday’s latest stupid party wanting to make further steps towards a codified constitution, putting power in the hands of the judiciary, without giving thought to centuries of common law we have at our disposal. I appreciate you won’t get this, but there you are anyway.
Lots of myths floating around about the common law at the moment.
And what myths might they be? Of course you do understand how the British constitution works, and the crucial role the Common Law plays?
Interesting. Two readers here think that the elected elite are doing OK and that the individual is sufficiently protected.
I suspect that, unlike you, they are sufficiently educated to realise that a surfeit of statutory law affords only diminishing and mostly imprecise protection for the individual – subject to the whims of the legislators, the precision of the drafting, and the interpretation of the learned judiciary.
This protection, moreover, is forever dependent on the political stripes of the next government, which can (with a simple majority) repeal ANY statute at will.
No problem for a PM with cojones. simply revoke the permission for those UEFA officials to attend the semi final and final at Wembley – effective immediately. Unfortunately….
Trouble is, the last PM that had those particular qualities was a woman, and I’m NOT referring to Mrs May…
When i think of England, I remember Terry Butcher and his blood. The present crop of kneeling millionaire idiots do nothing for me but i hope they do well for all the manipulated and potentially poisoned kids going around today in England shirts, they deserve a few last months of happy sunshine.
When I think of England I remember Bobby Charlton and his trailing comb-over, but other than that I broadly agree.
This is perhaps the most politically charged game yet, especially with the German Euro Federation having been dumped out by England, and EU openly courting Ukraine. So great chance to nobble the officials while depriving England of any meaningful support in the stadium, after all the German officials were already trying to limit the Wembley crowds for the semi finals earlier in the week.
I expect an early sending off, and the usual tears, but hope level heads will prevail. For as seriously as the English fans take this match, it’s nowhere near as seriously as the German Eurocrats do.
Was thinking of this earlier. Can you imagine Norman Hunter, Jack Charlton or Terry Butcher taking a knee for a career criminal?
Unfortunately I could. Don’t forget that in 1938 (before those guys’ time but still) the England team gave the Nazi salute.
This is the same principle. If any player doesn’t want to take knee, first they’re pressurised socially into doing so. Then, if that doesn’t work, they’re threatened with harm to their careers if they do not do so.
I thought there was a part of the European convention on human rights that dealt with discrimination based on ethnicity
Oh sorry I forgot, human rights went out of the window last March and appear to be gone for a very long time
How can a Briton living in Italy be stopped from attending a match?
Just heard the Italian police will have checkpoints on roads to stop England fans. Let that sink in, check points to stop football fans. The world is fucked.
Oh dear. Bread and circuses strategy misfiring a bit.
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Is there anybody out there who still believes that this is about a virus or health anymore! 🥱
Welcome back Mussolini.
If ethics ruled instead of commerce, the England team would turn up then walk off the pitch and screw the whole shit-show
No they wouldn’t, they would turn up and play football to the best of their ability (like they are paid to do as professional footballers) and entertain the nation.
Would that professional politicians, professional journalists and professional medics (who ARE bound by an ethical oath to do no harm) do their jobs with the same diligence and gusto.
aka roll over, do nothing, take the money and run.
No, aka do one’s job to the best of one’s professional ability.
A footballer is a sportsman and an entertainer, not the proxy conscience of their fellow countrymen – that is rather what politicians are supposedly paid for when they can be bothered turning up. They get paid for doing their job, or should they be doing their work for free? Would you? Why stop at footballers, Rick, who else do you want to enslave in your nutty world?
Would that you were as openly critical of many (not all) professional medics who appear quite happy to take the money for shoving in a dangerous experimental (and potentially fatal) jab, while failing to oppose masks (the downsides of which have long been known) and lockdown (which has in itself led to innumerable mental health issues and suicides – not to mention long, long waiting lists).
Maybe all shop workers and rubbish collectors should come in solidarity with your crusade for a month or two? And you will, of course, donate your own pension in its entirety to the local food bank?
Calm down. It isn’t me doing any enslaving, and I reckon that the overpaid dribblers could afford a bit of soldarity.
But I guess the odd game of bigged up Subbuteo is toomuch to miss.
True, except it’s politics not commerce.
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Italy is the kind of place where you could still find a way to get into the match by a little bribe here or there or some fake documents
All these “men” following false idols while we are battling evil in WW3. Is that a bit dramatic?
I just rejected a ticket to the final based on all of this BS that’s been going on. No I will not get a swap shoved up my nose and then degrade myself by muzzling just to watch my country subvert to a Marxist organisation. Was a hard decision as I am a big football fan but I would feel like a fraud for going. Keep resisting everyone