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Premier League clubs push back on mandatory vaccinations

A number of Premier League clubs including West Ham are set to tell the government that its plan for mandatory vaccinations for all players and fans is unworkable.

The Government is pushing for it to be a requirement that from October 1st all spectators at sports events of more than 20,000 people must be double-jabbed, but top-flight clubs want the flexibility to allow fans and players to show proof of a negative test instead.

Several clubs including Chelsea, Spurs and Brighton & Hove Albion have announced that fans will have to show Covid passports — either proof of a double vaccination or lateral flow negative test — from the start of the season and the intention is for all top-flight clubs to have a similar system in place within a few weeks.

One unnamed club chairman told The Times that several clubs had shared their concerns about the mandatory element of the plan and that they are hoping the government will agree that the Covid passport system used at Euro 2020 is sufficient.

West Ham has announced that Lateral flow tests are recommended for attendance for the London Stadium for Betway cup on Satuday afternoon but are not compulsory.   Spurs and Chelsea have already announced trials including lateral flow tests for entry to stadia.

 

About Sean Whetstone

I am Season Ticket Holder in West stand lower at the London Stadium and before that, I used to stand in the Sir Trevor Brooking Lower Row R seat 159 in the Boleyn Ground and in the Eighties I stood on the terraces of the old South Bank. I am a presenter on the West Ham Podcast called MooreThanJustaPodcast.co.uk. A Blogger on WestHamTillIdie.com a member of the West Ham Supporters Advisory Board (SAB), Founder of a Youtube channel called Mr West Ham Football at http://www.youtube.com/MrWestHamFootball, I am also the associate editor here at Claret and Hugh. Life Long singer of bubbles! Come on you Irons! Follow me at @Westhamfootball on twitter

6 comments on “Premier League clubs push back on mandatory vaccinations

  1. If you’re eligible for the jab and have no medical reason not to have it then please just get it.

  2. Well said Alan if everyone did this then no need for compulsion!

  3. No, thanks… If you were vegan would you go if everyone had to eat a hotdog 🌭 to get in?

    • It seems that during this frenzy people have forgotten that this is an experimental drug, which is NOT a vaccine and the most important part of all…
      As human beings, from birth, we ALL have a right to chose what happens with our bodies, what we eat, what we don’t eat and this is enshrined in law, which every country on this planet signed up to after what happened to the Jews after WWll.
      That’s it basically!

  4. Well said ‘ The Cat’.

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