The English Football League (EFL), which is composed of all professional football clubs in the Championship, League One, and League Two, has announced that match-day testing will be stopped in order to limit the impact of fixture disruption, which has become a potent problem over the festive period. After receiving advice from medical experts, the EFL will now only conduct match-day tests on players if they express symptoms. The Times has the story.
The EFL has scrapped match-day testing for Covid in an attempt to limit fixture disruption for clubs and supporters.
The decision has been taken after consultation with medical advisers after it became clear that the existing requirement was causing concern and uncertainty at clubs as well as affecting fans.
Cancellations of matches due to the combination of Covid and injuries have been widespread throughout the EFL, with last-minute postponements bringing practical and financial challenges.
Over the past week, EFL chiefs have sought advice from medics and have now decided to remove match-day testing, other than for any symptomatic individuals. Correspondence to clubs was circulated yesterday.
The approach is supported by the league’s board, executive and a significant number of club doctors and fits with the EFL’s commitment to play matches. They insist the health and safety of players is not being compromised.
The decision was also taken in the knowledge that players are effectively in a bubble leading up to a game and, for example, may be with the team in a hotel. They are not out socialising.
An EFL spokesman said: “Over the past week, it has become clear that the requirement for match-day testing has caused significant concern and uncertainty at clubs as well as seriously affecting the supporters of those teams.
“As a result, the League revisited the matter with its Medical Advisors and after careful consideration, which included dialogue with a significant number of club doctors, it was determined that the requirement for matchday testing would be removed, except for those individuals who display Covid symptoms.
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A football organisation displaying common sense. There’s a novelty!
In other words – this is nothing to do with health, and we’re not in the middle of a deadly pandemic.
It’s a start.
have just seen this on another site:
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/caught-red-handed-covid-tests-are-designed-to-pick-up-sars-cov-2-proteins-which-the-mrna-vaccines-tell-your-body-to-produce-self-fulfilling-outbreak-and-total-fraud
seasonal cold or flu anybody?
Suspected as much. Deliberate fraud. The ruling criminal class are shameless. They just don’t give a fuck. Some of us realise this. Some of us don’t.
The spike has always been the bio-weapon.
Anyone had a loss of taste and/or smell and believed the media that it must be covid? It was spike protein contact, probably from a jabbed person shedding:
“The mouth is a significant entry route for SARS-COV-2, similar to the nose and eyes. The cells of the oral epithelium, taste buds, and minor and major salivary glands express cell entry factors for SARS-COV-2, such as ACE2, TMPRSS2, and Furin.”
S1 spike protein binds to ACE2 receptors.
S1 spike protein causes cell inflammation in your lungs, scientists have coated empty viral shells in S1 and introduced them to animals and healthy cell cultures to prove this toxic effect.
Then to complete the scam you get your confirmation from a fake PCR test.
There is no virus.
I’ve been calling this out as being cold and flu with absolute certainty for quite some time now.
My uncle is the 1st person I know to have ‘caught’ covid-19. This was in the last few days and it comes soon after his 3rd jab, then a stroke. He reckons he ‘caught’ it from his infant grandaughter who tested positive when she had cold symptoms.
He reckons he would be finished if he hadn’t got his well-timed “booster”. He has no idea it is the booster which is making him so ill.
This is an example of what will be happening to every family in the country.
I liked this graphic.
While the media focus the country’s attention on Pfeffel’s outrageous lie about 90% of the those in ICU being unjabbed, another public figure has suddenly died of a ‘short illness’ without further explanation.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/17146735/janice-long-who-illness/
“it was determined that the requirement for matchday testing would be removed, except for those individuals who display Covid symptoms.”
Yeah, but, yeah, but what about all those ‘asymptomatic’ ‘cases’?
Football matches go ahead. A New Variant-of-Concern emerges. Football fans get blamed. Leading to more lockdowns, more face masks, more jabs, and more lessons that will be learned.
SAGE are just playing with everyone and having a grand old time of it.
I don’t think people are going to put up with another variant.
I’m actually quite certain they will, and that there is another one going to be pulled out of SAGE’s hat shortly.
I’ve just seen this happen too often, over and over again – we all knew there was going to be a ‘variant’ just before Christmas, and they had the neck to actually do it and bring out The Omicron.
Remember my words. I have made a note right here beside me that I am predicting this to happen, let’s say before April. I’ll hold on to this note because I am interested myself to see if I’m correct.
I have also mentioned to my partner that we should, for fun, write our predictions down as to what will happen during 2022 and what the situation will be by the end of next year… put those predictions into envelopes, seal them, and open them in a year’s time.
Off topic, but my sons NYE party has just been cancelled. His friend who was hosting the party is a retained fireman. He cancelled the party as he just wants to just get out of the village, as he’s been called out to an unusual number of suicides this week. It’s the fire services job to gather up the body and clean up the area.
Also a relative of mine works in social services and she said in her area they are seeing 2 or 3 youth suicides a week now, when it’s usually 5 or 6 a year. The youths who are committing suicide are usually male high achievers who have lost hope and can see no future.
That’s terrible.
any measure to curb the football monomania is a happy side effect.
Loving the thread. Just had a personal giggle, they’re calling them LFTs but really they should be called RATs 🐀 (Rapid Antigen Tests)
Last time I checked an LFT was a liver function test
A pity the management don’t kick government asses, to allow the players unfettered, normal shin kicking.
Very convenient these experts – always approving what you want anyway.
Are they removing all testing or only match day testing? You know, when they will be face to face with people they don’t normally associate with. It’s it’s all testing Yay, if it’s match day testing because “it’s an inconvenience” then that’s an absolute disgraceful level of hypocrisy!
He really is obnoxious.
I can think of stronger descriptions.
SARS‑CoV‑2 Gene Manipulation Serums and their Associated Patents:
Graphene & Hydrogels:
Moderna has patented Hydrogel – US8415325B2.
Hydrogels are also mentioned in a second Moderna patent.
Hydrogel is listed in a Johnson & Johnson patent.
Hydrogels are made from Graphene Oxide. Graphene Oxide is metallic, hence the many reports showing magnets adhering to the sites of SARS‑CoV‑2 gene serum injection sites.
It’s very important to beware that Graphene Oxide and Hydrogels are present in the SARS‑CoV‑2 gene manipulating serums.
Hydrogels have been developed in order to deliver nanoparticle-containing technology into the human body. Many injections of gene serum are needed to get the required amount of these nanoparticles into the human body, hence the roll-out of endless booster shots.
These nanoparticles assemble inside the human body. When assembled, like microscopic computerised scanners, they’ll be able to gather information about the body, and microscopic transmitters will then send this information to, say, a smart phone and onwards to a centralised database.
All of which gives us Genetically Modified Humans.
All the patents linked to above, except one, mention “complementary DNA” or cDNA. cDNA is basically where the mRNA gene serums alter human DNA.
When an agricultural biotechnology company alters the DNA… Read more »
This sounds spot on to me and certainly explains all the booster crap.
Of course if the 5G conspiracies are correct the nano technology could be used to eliminate people.
And some people think this horror story is coming to an end…
Sorry just read your comment, that you raise the same point about 5G.
Remember the Diamond Princess cruise ship, the test run for this hoax at the very start of the shit show? The boat had 5G installed – very unusual considering the guests would not have had compatible technology back then.
Another “conspiracy theory” that even those who comment on this website laughed about and mocked, which will in time become common knowledge.
We’re yet to see what will happen when they switch 5G on across the country…
They claim 5G is solely for faster internet speeds. Faster speeds are probably needed in certain financial areas, but people in most of the country couldn’t physically work hard enough or long enough to justify the vast expense of installing 5G masts.
4G is more than adequate for the vast majority of businesses and private users.
5G is needed, though, if the bodily statistics and habits of millions of citizens are to be sent to central processing stations on a 24/7 basis. Couple this with the electric smart meters they are installing at an enormous rate. These meters will read and send an awful lot of personal information about the customer’s home-life habits.
The Cabal will know more about the typical citizen, then he or she will know themselves.
And when they have the nano-technology installed in human bodies, how long until they’ll be able to send messages via 5G to this nano-technology instructing it to cause pain in the human host?
Perhaps, the human hosts displayed some wrong-think on Social Media and needed to be punished, so as to correct this wrong-think. For instance, they could instruct the nano-technology to irritate or paralyse the… Read more »
SARS‑CoV‑2 Gene Manipulation Serums and their Associated Patents:
Graphene & Hydrogels:
Moderna has patented Hydrogel – US8415325B2.
Hydrogels are also mentioned in a second Moderna patent.
Hydrogel is listed in a Johnson & Johnson patent.
Hydrogels are made from Graphene Oxide. Graphene Oxide is metallic, hence the many reports showing magnets adhering to the sites of SARS‑CoV‑2 gene serum injection sites.
It’s very important to beware that Graphene Oxide and Hydrogels are present in the SARS‑CoV‑2 gene manipulating serums.
Hydrogels have been developed in order to deliver nanoparticle-containing technology into the human body. Many injections of gene serum are needed to get the required amount of these nanoparticles into the human body, hence the roll-out of endless booster shots.
These nanoparticles assemble inside the human body. When assembled, like microscopic computerised scanners, they’ll be able to gather information about the body, and microscopic transmitters will then send this information to, say, a smart phone and onwards to a centralised database.
All of which gives us Genetically Modified Humans.
All the patents linked to above, except one, mention “complementary DNA” or cDNA. cDNA is basically where the mRNA gene serums alter human DNA.
When an agricultural biotechnology company alters the DNA of a… Read more »
Gosh, you really can send people quite nutty when you get your hands on a printing press.
I can imagine you sitting there trying your hardest to be sarcastically nonchalant about this site’s journalists.
But, like a good snowflake, you’ve had your series of SARS‑CoV‑2 jabs and boosters. And you are feeling a bit winded of late, you don’t feel like you used to. Constantly tired. Weird feelings running through your body.
There’s fear under the surface, but, being a good snowflake, you bury it. And tell yourself that the constant ill-feelings you’ve had since the first jab are simply signs that they are working.
But, yet your subconscious draws you to sites like this. In essence, deep inside, you are looking for answers for something that just doesn’t seem right. But you consciously hide this subconscious seeking of truth behind a foolish nonchalance that directs childish ridicule at what is being related on this site.
You could attempt rebut what’s being offered here. But you can’t, because your subconscious tells you that you are living proof that what’s being said here is much nearer the truth than the abnormal feelings of illness which the “curative medications” you took have left you with.
Vaccines and medicines are supposed to protect and cure you, not make… Read more »
I meant the press at large tbh. Sometimes you have to sit back and just look at the whole shitshow in amazement, you know?
Hey, check this out, sixth time’s the charm! Lol. :
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/netherlands-announces-plan-dole-out-6-vaccine-doses
If a little is good, and more is better, then way too much is just about right!
Now those are some boosters.
They certainly look as if they are designed to entice “injections”.
https://www-rki-de.translate.goog/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Wochenbericht/Wochenbericht_2021-12-30?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
Brilliant.
But not unexpected by us.
Bound to be on the BBCsoon!
You can never be “fully vaccinated” silly, keep up, it’s shot 4 now! 🙂
“Balmy new year weather ideal for outdoor parties, say UK meteorologists“.
If you want to know what you should do, always “follow the science”. They might let you have a midazolam party before they burn you at the stake and they all dance around you chanting “Whoop whoop whoop for graphs, percentages, and, positivism!” and “Quantity fir$t and foremo$t!”
A treat for those just about to eat dinner.. 😉
Well, you’ve got to have a laugh at these f*ckers..
It’s the 30th of December, I can confirm with high confidence:
That is the most horrifying thing I’ve seen all year.
Me too.. I very near spewed in my spag-bol.. Once seen, never forgotten..
Is that really him??!
This could be career-ending (or an arrestable offence).
Barf…..
‘kin hell.
It’s only taken two years…
Ah!
Enlightened self-interest breaks out in the EFL.
When it hits their pockets, common sense triumphs.
But it is fine to “inconvenience” the customers apparently.
the professional football authorities in England disgust me.
i’m a regular at my PL club of over 50 years. Some kinds of discrimination are perfectly acceptable it seems. Other kinds need gestures making at every match.
They must have some genius medics – it’s only taken them all this time to realise positive test does not = illness/inability to play.
But there again their hands are tied by the Rules of Clown World.
If they know even a shred about immunology they know it ain’t about a virus.
We’ve got a huge battle ahead to save the original homo sapiens.
Just look at Italy.
Another Doctor speaks out. Fetal Risk Whistleblower OBGYN Doctor “The Vaccine Increased The Death Rate 25 Fold In 10 Months”
quite right too.
Wow, the regime really is falling apart at the seams. Love the way all this new medical and scientific information suddenly appears on the scene.
I wonder if those friends and family members who cut contact with me when I said this would all end if we simply stopped testing will re-evaluate?
Not that I fucking care, TBH.
One of the biggest crimes of this whole shambles, the damage done to people’s relationships with family and friends. And some say this has been a deliberate tactic too. Utterly shameful if true.
Sadly this has been my experience. Over the past 20 months several friends and family members have chosen to sever contact with me. I now feel that my husband is my only true friend.
At least you have him.
Agreed – and I do think it is deliberate
Hilarious!!
Oh, it’s not convenient to test positive so you don’t need to test.
I can see that this is progress, of course, but how bloody hypocritical.
I’m not too sure what the government (joke of a) are playing at or have up their sleeve, but I was talking to a friend about 4 weeks ago who is fairly senior within a voluntary NGO. He informed me that they have been requested by the government to arrange for volunteers to be available from the 4th Jan to assist with mass testing.
@SmellyMelly
Something is definitely going on. Sajid Javid says he has tripled the order for LFD tests for January and February, raising it to 300 million per month.
Will they be going door to door? Or banning the untested from supermarkets maybe?
They’re up to something with those damned tests.
Javid also says (speaking like some kind of David Brent take-off) that he will be “bringing new products on board and accelerating their deployment to the public”.
New products, huh?
Tests that always give positive results, perhaps?
Or are we talking about a huge order for midazolam, in packets with little pictures of teddy bears on?
What client area does the NGO that your friend works for specialise in? The elderly, children, chronically ill, disadvantaged areas,…?
My theory on the above is that PCR testing will be withdrawn, replaced with LFT which is in line with the US CDC’s recent advice.
And, even more reliable.Lol.. But, what’s it matter anyway. – well in any sane world it would not.
And, made in Cheena.
They must be pissing themselves laughing.
The current PCR test has been withdrawn but there are many other now FDA approved PCR tests that they will be using.
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-emergency-use-authorizations-medical-devices/in-vitro-diagnostics-euas-molecular-diagnostic-tests-sars-cov-2
If this was truly about the risk of passing on a life threatening disease, the EFL would not be allowed to change the rules. This quite clearly tells us – as those with enough nous have known for months, that the real risk from this disease is minimal, unless you’re in the tiny minority of people who are truly vulnerable
Exactly
… and how many of them play professional football?
‘unless you’re in the tiny minority of people who are truly vulnerable’
and vulnerable people have always had to be careful when colds and flu are about….
‘and vulnerable people have always had to be careful when colds and flu are about….’
Exactly! And we’ve never shut down society to protect those who are vulnerable to such respiratory diseases! Why now?