Amid concerns of a low vaccine uptake among professional footballers, the Premier League has sent a briefing note to all 20 clubs outlining that the body might reward teams for making sure their players are double jabbed. What these potential incentives may be remains unclear. In addition, the Premier League has cited concerns over international travel and the likelihood of vaccine passports being introduced in the near future. The Mail has the story.
The Premier League has written to clubs informing them of plans to “reward” teams who have the highest numbers of vaccinated players
Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante was confirmed on Tuesday as the latest player to contract Covid, forcing him to miss his side’s Champions League clash against Juventus on Wednesday night.
And Sportsmail can reveal that in a briefing note sent to clubs last week, the Premier League are stepping up their efforts to ensure more players are fully vaccinated due to fears over a slow uptake.
The document read: “According to the data we have, only seven clubs’ squads are more than 50% fully vaccinated, so we have a way to go.”
Sportsmail revealed last week that at least two Premier League sides have no more than six players vaccinated.
But Wolves, Brentford and Leeds have reported between 89 and 100% vaccination levels and there is growing optimism that the figures at other clubs will increase in the coming weeks.
The note continued: “We are considering if and how best we can ‘reward’ those squads/players who are most Covid-compliant and who have opted to be vaccinated.
“It is increasingly clear that full vaccination will be the key criteria for Government and health authorities, in terms of international travel and potential Covid certification at large scale events.”
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That great ex footballer Matt Le Tissier is a non-believer !
just went up even further in my estimation
Be a good little doggy
her life for a doughnut
I am a Leeds United supporter. They have made the poorest start to this season in many years. They are renowned for their relentless energy and running over the 90 minutes of a game.
I’m gutted that the majority of the team have received the jab. I refuse to call it a vaccine.
Now their poor start can be put into context. Their energy and running statistics are below those of last season. Coinicidence?
Kante ‘contracting’ the virus means nothing. Is he ill or just tested positive? And we all know about testing reliability, don’t we. This is just another example of coercion. The bigger question one should ask is why and why are they not talking about adverse effects and deaths caused by the jab.
Can I please ask that ‘The Daily Sceptic’ stops colluding with the Government in its misuse of scientific terms to push out its distorted Covid narrative?
We already know that the ‘Cases’ figure actually includes all positive test results; whether false positive, asymptomatic or not. Using the word ‘Vaccine’ is fulfilling the same objective. A true vaccine immunises an individual against a disease; think MMR & Polio vaccines which are generally around +97% effective at preventing the diseases concerned. The injections that are being hailed by the Government do not fit this description; they should be more accurately described as prophylactics; as they prevent some worse complications occurring; think Durex and preventing pregnancy (other condom brands are available).
Of course the great majority of the population hear the word ‘vaccine’ and subconsciously relate it to the excellent performance of real vaccines; just as the Government intends; at the suggestion of the Behavioural Insights unit? They do not realise that the so called ‘vaccines’ have about the same level of protection as a split condom.
And still no one questions why ‘rewards for vaccines’ sounds deeply sinister. We have never in our human history been offered sweets and treats to give control of our bodies to government. We are truly a totally brainwashed country. Shame on us.
NBA players declining the vaccines as well. My husband said this morning, “what do they know”? My reply the same thing we all know. 15.000 deaths and 750,000 adverse events post vaxx in the USA cdc VAERS. Young men injured 1:1000 myocarditis. Please respond to the department of Health and Social Care’s request for your input regarding vaxx passports. Lithuania and Australia, France and Italy the guinea pigs. Britain, next on the list.
Perhaps they’ll run a “first player to collapse with a heart attack” sweepstake?
Excluding Christian Eriksen, of course.
Please everyone, we must fight back against this nonesense. We are aĺl done for if we don’t.
Amen!
I am supporting my local northern league team this year.
Seconded. I watched West Auckland v Consett the other week- 600 in att, totally normal
“…the Premier League has sent a briefing note to all 20 clubs outlining that the body might reward teams for making sure their players are double jabbed.“
wow, bet it’s an extra half of an orange at half time. They’ll all be queuing up for it, I say, they’ll all be queuing up for it…
Leeds one of the most vaccinated clubs? This is a side that depends on non-stop running to close down opposition players, as it has done for the past 3 seasons – Leeds fans have commented on how the players now seem exhausted during the last 10-15 minutes of matches. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
How many soccer players in Europe have died of COVID? Have been hospitalized from COVID?
Of those who have tested positive, what percentage had asymptomatic cases or only very mild symptoms?
What percentage of athletes who tested positive later came back to play with no ill effects?
In other words, could some reporter somewhere in the world try to QUANTIFY the “health risk” to athletes?
Which leads to this final question: If these athletes face no risks from this disease, why do they need to be protected from it?
Stop asking sensible questions!
FFS!
There is nothing else to say.
Not sure I understand this. The Premier League is a private company, wholly-owned by its 20 member clubs. So why are they writing to each other to ‘encourage’ each other to do something? It’s not like they’re writing to their employees; this is something that must have been talked about at board level that board members would then take back to their own clubs.
I suspect that fourth/fifth-choice chief exec Masters has undoubtedly been leant on, and taken it on himself to issue these edicts. I hope they tell him to wind his neck in.
It is part of the Digital ID framework to get major stakeholders on board, to do the govt dirty work. The OL, Royal Opera House, Royal Albert Hall all desperate to get in board and keep in the govt good books.
pathetic tossers the lot of them.
PL , not OL !!
Sports and exercise are such a pre-2019 concept anyway. Let the team with most jabs win by default, and you can watch all the jabbing online. That way clubs could save on players’ salaries as well (and let those be diverted to noble causes like developing new types of jabs).
My child’s year group was getting vaccinated this week. 2 children in the year went home feeling unwell after the vaccine (that my child knows of – may have been more). One of these was complaining of chest pains during the lunch hour.
This is so not right.
50 years supporting my team, and I mean attending lots of games.
but I will walk away for good if the VPs happen. Not something I want to be part of.
Prizes for owning the most genetically modified people.
For fuck sake!!! They’re fit young athletes who will most likely shrug off covid. Can’t shrug of myocarditis though……
Too bad covid infections cause statistically more cases of myocarditis than the vaccines then.
No it doesn’t!
“The vaccines” are a covid infection. So as a subset of covid infections, you’re absolutely right that vaccines cause fewer cases of mycarditis than the entirety of covid infections.
Good troll.
Oh do FO.
It’s noticeable that any health benefits for the individuals concerned don’t even rate a mention.
I know it’s because there aren’t any, but they’re so cocky they know they don’t even have to pretend.
Reward the “COVID-compliant.” What a nasty phrase. As loathsome as the brag “double-vaxxed.”
DO NOT COMPLY!
Bribery.
Corruption.
Fascism.
Wonder how many have been in touch with Christian Eriksen
Footballers are young, by definition, and they’re among the fittest people in the country.
They’re the least at risk.
Which may make them more at risk from the “vaccines”.
Goodness me this is desperate stuff. Words fail me.
Did Kante contract covid or simply test positive?. There is a difference. The former implies bedridden with hideous symptoms, the latter possibly a dodgy PCR testing procedure.
My immediate thought, too. But then, even if Kante had been jabbed up the yin yang, he could still be testing positive, catching it and passing it on.
And where is the PL getting the cash for its ‘rewards’ from, I wonder?
Maybe the “reward” is that they won’t be punished? Think Orwellian speak. Like the word “freedom” now means slavery.
Perhaps they’ll dish out handicaps so they can win without winning?
points deduction? if you don’t meet a jab target?
“It is increasingly clear that full vaccination will be the key criteria for Government and health authorities, in terms of international travel and potential Covid certification at large scale events.”
No it’s not.
It’s clear that a certain group of people are trying to coerce governments and populations into demanding this. But it is far from clear they will succeed.
The scummy, tyrannical, controlling bastards.
Can the number be inferred from the number of heart attacks occurring on the pitch in their matches?
Skip the game and skip Myocarditis, don’t ruin your health for a political stunt in favour of health apartheid.