Qatar is believed to be pushing for unvaccinated footballers to be barred from playing in next year’s World Cup, with fans also having to show proof of full vaccination to attend matches. MailOnline has the story.
It is known that professional players’ views on taking the vaccine are mixed and there are some concerns Qatar’s stance could rob the tournament of its stars – something all parties want to avoid.
Qatar, who have already administered more than 4.6 million vaccines so far, roughly 82% of their population, are in discussions with FIFA and medical authorities in efforts to reach an amicable solution.
The Athletic claim a number of options are being considered, including uninoculated players having to report negative tests every three days. …
A number of Premier League clubs are known to have players still resisting the Covid vaccine, including Arsenal and Switzerland star Granit Xhaka.
Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted last month “not all of the players have been double-jabbed”, adding: “I have encouraged them to take the vaccination but you cannot force anyone to do that.” …
Newcastle manager Steve Bruce has admitted that “a lot” of his players have not been vaccinated…
Deputy Chief Medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam has been forthright in urging players to take up the vaccine and told them to ignore the myths around it. …
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What a load of you know what. How many more athletes do we need to lose from the poisonous vaccines before a stop to this entire death by vaccination madness stops. Today, another friend has a blood clot. Another lung damage, another heart abnormalities. Ten other friends now have Covid post double jabs. I declined. Why won’t more people wake up and say NO.
Well at least some footballers are gifted with common sense. The Qatar World Cup is going to be one of the biggest non events ever. They also didn’t win it fairly in the first place in my honest opinion.
Covid is a disease which kills the elderly and / or those with underlying conditions, in particular cardio-vascular weakness. Professional footballers are young and in ridiculously good cardio-vascular condition. So it would make no sense whatsoever for a pro footballer to take the vaccine.
“ignore the MYTHS”! Shouldn’t Van Tam be advising footballers to do their OWN research! What he refers to as vaccine “myths” are backed by solid evidence, & can have life affecting impacts on people of all ages.
Coercion !? What coercion! It’s a conspiracy right !!?
Well, they are professional athletes with short careers, they don’t want die from micro- blood clots when they travel to European and International away games.
I’d have thought the deep state would leave them alone, like Pfizer, FDA and Moderna employees.
Pleased to know footballers refusing but I am boycotting premium league footy for now. Went to watch my local team Marine FC in FA cup qualifier. Terraces. Reminded me of the good old days without the bovver
One of the most poignant moments of last season, all those people watching Marine v Spurs from their gardens.
Exactly that ,it was a phoney bribe heavy affair from its conception and means nothing to real football fans .The memmory of Argentina 78 or Spain 82 could not be eclipsed by this corporate birthday party for rich princes
This will never, ever happen. I have a friend who is an ex pro footballer and works at one of the Premier League clubs. At his club around 40-50 percent of the players are unvaxed, including many of the biggest names.
“Full vaccination”?!!! When will people wake up and realise you will NEVER be “fully vaccinated”! This is the point! To drive people into a deeper, darker, tighter black hole of control and coercion, to push more and more unwanted and unneeded medication on us, making billions and billions for them, and all their cronies, but creating a depleted and devitalised population. By next year they’ll be press-ganging the 5th (or more) booster shot onto people, together with your slave slab, green-to-go permission “passport” if they get away with it now! Anyone missing their boosters, slides straight down the snake to the bottom, as you’re now classed as unvaccinated as the rest of us! And there are people who STILL DON’T GET IT!
That’s why I’ve never had a supermarket loyalty card, it just stops the freedom, you feel committed….
Correct me if I am wrong but I think where things are up to with these covid vaccines is:
the FDA don’t currently recommend boosters to younger people and one of the reasons they give is the risk of myocarditis from the vaccines is greater for males under 40 than the risk of having a covid infection it’s fully acknowledge now that these vaccines do not stop infections and so any benefit from taking them is a reduction in illness severity should the person get a covid infection there seems to be more or less acknowledgement that any protective effect these vaccines may offer wears off, maybe after 6 to 8 months, so any person, a footballer say, having a vaccine now would not have protection by the time of the World Cup. (Though Fauci in the Telegraph yesterday was insisting we will come to accept 3 shots will be needed to be fully vaccinated, he is continuing the myth of these being sterilising vaccines!!!). we know there are risk factors making a person more susceptible to severe illness from a covid infection and these are age, frailty, obesity, blood pressure, diabetes, other illnesses causing increased risks – majority of… Read more »
“Can anyone tell me if I am missing something here because for the life of me I do not understand why Van Tam is pushing these people to take a vaccine they clearly do not need.”
It’s politics, power, ambition, vanity, greed, arrrogance, evil. Nothing would convince me that Van Tam, Whitty and Vallance don’t know that this is all nonsense. They are all highly qualified, but highly dishonest. Or they have gone stark raving bonkers.
“Deputy Chief Medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam has been forthright in urging players to take up the vaccine and told them to ignore the myths around it”
“Myths” like these ones published by HM Government?
“Up to and including 1 September 2021, the MHRA received and analysed 111,317 UK Yellow Cards from people who have received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. These reports include a total of 314,700 suspected reactions (i.e. a single report may contain more than one symptom). The first report was received on 9 December 2020.
Up to and including 1 September 2021, the MHRA received and analysed a total of 230,499 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca. These reports include a total of 820,923 suspected reactions (a single report may contain more than one symptom). The first report was received on 4 January 2021.
Up to and including 1 September 2021, the MHRA received and analysed a total of 15,079 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna. These include a total 47,977 suspected reactions (a single report may contain more than one symptom). The first report was received on 7 April 2021.”
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“The MHRA has received 524 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in which the patient died shortly after vaccination, 1,064 reports for the COVID-19 Vaccine… Read more »
Yes. I don’t know if there is a World Cup of women teams at the same time but there is currently investigation of why women’s menstrual cycles and flow are being affected by these vaccines.
I can see no reason if you are a young male or female athlete why you would wish to have one of these vaccines.
I think the only MP to stand up in parliament and ask for no-fault compensation for COVID vaccine injuries has been Christopher Chope MP
https://www.chrischope.com/news/chris-chope-strong-and-significant-covid-19-vaccine-damage-bill-2nd-reading-debate
The comments from some other MPs during the debate weren’t that constructive. (Maybe they have pharma shares.)
I hope these spoiled dollies finally grow a pair and resist the bullying.
If they can kick balls they can kick a..e.
So he recovered, good for him. What about all the people who got bad reactions to the vaccine and have not recovered. Funny how they never get a spot on the BBC.
I’ve just recovered from a bad bout of Covid19 and I’m not urging people to get the jab. Funnily enough my views don’t count though.
Some people will have a worse time with covid illness than others, I didn’t find my bout last year great fun, though I’ve had much worse viral illness in the past. It doesn’t mean everyone must take this vaccine. If I was that player I wouldn’t want the bbc to use me to coerce others into vaccination!
Looks like a case all vaticinations are acceptable. No matter where they are made. Chinese, Russian, USA, India,Europe etc. It is often said that some are much more effective than others.That is why some countries do not allow visitors from certain countries because of the vaccine used.
Yet another for the something is not sitting right pile of facts.
No problem. Quite possible to ignore the myths and still avoid the vaccine.
Unlike carers they all have enough dough to sue for breach of human rights and lost earnings. No reason is needed to reject a vaccine.
Presumably any elite sportsman (or woman) with brains thinks very carefully about how to maintain their body correctly to achieve peak performance. Training regimes, diet, sleep etc are all intelligently managed, as their livelihood depends on it.
Allowing themselves to be injected with a novel substance with unknown consequences, potentially including disability and death, probably belongs in the category of career-limiting stupid decision-making.
They know they can lose their career from taking an unapproved cold medicine, so have experience of being very careful in health related issues.
I so hope they do this as the wheels will then start coming off big style and more and more people will see this for the absurd nonsense that it is.
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I lived and worked in Qatar for three years. All the stories of slave labour are 100% true. The construction workers have their passports seized, are made to pay for ‘training courses’ out of their meagre wages, and operate a ‘one out, one in’ hot bed dormitory system. Hundreds have died. The whole award stank from the beginning and hasn’t got any better.
That country is a ticking time bomb, millions of migrant “workers” and a few hundred thousand wealthy locals.
“Urging them to ignore the myths.” What myths would they be? The fact that fit and healthy young people have developed Myocarditis. I’ve also noticed that a lot of amateur sports players have collapsed and died recently. More reports than ever before. It won’t say if they have been vaccinated, but you can bet your house that they have.
ask the over 1600 dead, in England alone, if a myth killed them. Ask the hundreds who are blind or deaf if it was a myth.
Who would ever listen to van tam
I have no interest in football at all but that trophy looks a bit like a skull
Completely off topic, apologies.
Alex Cooney, the author of the letter that inspired Cops For Covid Truth, speaks out.
Fine. Let’s have the unvaccinated World Cup instead.
By the time this rolls around, if they are still mandating this, then they’ve won and the entire world will under miltary-medical dictatorship.
Not a rhetorical question…does anybody know of any professional players who’ve died, or lost a season to injury from Covid?
The closest they have had in the Premier League is Karl Darlow at Newcastle, hospitalised for breathing difficulties, and Kai Havertz at Chelsea.
Meanwhile.
https://talksport.com/football/945746/bayern-munich-kingsley-coman-age-heart-surgery/
Thanks, that’s as I suspected. I’ve only seen players and/or athletes in general, who’ve been out of matches/competitions, cause of Covid. I’m still not aware of any who have missed a season, or died as a result ( a few veterans aside )
I am aware of no athlete in America who has died of COVID in the past 19 months. This includes athletes from junior high through the professional ranks. So there are millions of athletes in this “study” with zero deaths so far. Only a tiny handful of athletes have been hospitalized.
But we can’t say this. Certainly, the press can’t report this factual data.
Allegedly this young man died four days after taking the shot.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/soccer-news/tributes-pour-after-former-waterford-24787825
The newspapers reported it as a short illness and gave no details. He fell ill on Friday, two hours after his jab, died on Monday.
And my daughter`s super fit judo coach was in hospital recently with an awful bout of “covid” and was absolutely nothing do to at all with taking a second shot of experimental gene therapy !!
And the 27-year old, fully-vaccinated, superfit Australian Olympic swimmer Madi Wilson has been hospitalized with “covid” in Naples where she was competing in the International Swimming League. Ultra-fit Aussie Olympic gold medallist is hospitalised with Covid despite being FULLY vaccinated | Daily Mail Online
This must a major talking point in every club, surely.
So far the mortality “risk” to athletes from COVID is 0.0000 percent. This should be worth a blurb in all these stories about (the few) athletes who refuse to get vaccinated. Why do they need to get vaccinated when they face no mortality risk?
Exactly what I was thinking. In the case of those who’ve caught a nasty case of the ro, being taken into hospital for observation/treatment, is not the same as receiving an injury that could put you out for a season, or life.
No allegedly about it. Poor Roy Butler did indeed die 4 days after getting the V.
Boycott the whole bloody thing.
Al Beeb still showing the genuflection to St Floyd of BLM on the footy show…..now some of the sheep are clapping them, but mostly they’re being booed.
Footy players know which side their bread is buttered and it ain’t on the death or serious injury side.
Every week, they insist on insulting the public with this.