Tag: Football

Five English football players who have been selected for the England squad recently are refusing to have a coronavirus vaccine, threatening their places in the World Cup squad in Qatar.

The Premier League is considering offering incentives to football clubs which ensure their players are fully vaccinated amid concerns that the vaccine uptake among professional footballers is too low.

Qatar is pushing for unvaccinated footballers to be barred from next year's World Cup, which will be hosted in the country, with fans already having to prove they have had two jabs to attend matches.

The definition of 'large venue' continues to widen under the Government's plans to introduce vaccine passports, with unvaccinated Brits set to be barred from football matches, concerts and business conferences.

The English Football League is to launch an 'education campaign' aimed at getting more players 'jabbed' after it was found that almost a third of EFL footballers have not been vaccinated and don't intend to be.

I'm a QPR fan and have decided to create a substack blog about following the team this season. After 16 months of writing about COVID-19, I thought it would be a blessed relief to write about football for a change.

Tottenham Hotspur has become the first Premier League club to announce they will be trialing vaccine passports ahead of the new season. A negative test will suffice though this is not included in plans for future passes.

It's been suggested that the recent surge and drop-off in Covid infections can be pinned on the football. But why then do Scotland and England's curves in June look so different?

Fans won't be alone in being barred from stadiums later this year if they've not been vaccinated. Premier League players and staff will also need to have received two doses of a Covid vaccine for matches to go ahead.