Covid and Football

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  • Expat_HammerExpat_Hammer
    Just back from Madeira where Covid is taken very seriously. Even for the Christmas market and the sea front fun fair your vaccination certificate AND negative test were required for entry. The government there offer free testing to everyone, tourists included, but if you don't have a certificate of a negative test and vaccination record you're fairly restricted in where you can go or what to do.

    - Participating in/attending activities/events - (Vaccination Certificate AND Rapid Antigen Test required as November 27th) to participate in or attend public and private sector activities, events including sports, restaurants, hairdressers, gyms, bars and clubs, cultural events, cinemas, nightlife activities, games, casinos, and other similar activities, people must be vaccinated and be tested every 7 days.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Hope you a good trip!
  • welovethehammerswelovethehammers
    Based on our recent form, a couple of postponed games could help us recharge our batteries and bring the injured players closer to recovery.
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    So the family trip to Paris that has been rearranged four times now has been cancelled yet again. :p
  • CleverTrevorCleverTrevor
    When I entered the Emirates they did get us all to get our covid pass up on our phones but they only glanced at them from quite a distance.
  • Expat_HammerExpat_Hammer
    MrsGrey said:

    Hope you a good trip!

    Thank you Mrs G, it was brilliant.
  • OutcastLondonerOutcastLondoner
    Things seems so bad but I doubt they’ll suspend easily. They didn’t for the Alpha variant which caused a lot of deaths and so I think they’ll try to ride this out as long as possible to see whether it’s less deadly than previous variants.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Won’t know for some time if it’s less deadly than other variants. South Africa claim it’s a mild illness but they are behind in their vaccinations so most people have only just been vaccinated and therefore have fresh immunity. Also the average age there is about 27 so a much younger demographic.
    Across Africa as a whole the average age is about 19 so it’s difficult to use there as a definite indication.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Further to the issue of checking at matches, I spotted this in an article about Brighton..
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    While we were only required to randomly check 20% of those attending, a combination of randomly pre-selecting home fans for Covid pass checks, and a series of further random checks at turnstiles for home and away fans, allowed us to far exceed our target,” said chief executive Paul Barber.
  • epsom_bubblesepsom_bubbles
    I read that a significamt percentage of players are choosing not to have the jab. Does anyone know what percentage of the West Ham squad have been jabbed? Klopp says 99% of his squad are vaccinated
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    epsom_bubbles said:

    I read that a significamt percentage of players are choosing not to have the jab. Does anyone know what percentage of the West Ham squad have been jabbed? Klopp says 99% of his squad are vaccinated

    Hmm. A PL squad is maximum 25 players, 99% of that is 24.75. One of them is only three-quarters vaccinated. ;)
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    They should all be double jabbed, and boosted. If I have to get frisked, show personal health information to an unqualified stranger and wear a mask just to be allowed to watch them it is the least they should do. There will be exemptions, which is fine, but with 60% of hospitalised covid patients being unjabbed they need to make the effort.
    It's a disgrace.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Burnley-Villa off.

    i honestly don't see how they can continue the league... these players testing positive aren't going to be available until after Xmas, and maybe not even then fit to play.
  • yoyoyoyo
    The next week or so could become a farce whereby some games go ahead and the teams that don't play find themselves 4 games behind.
  • alderzalderz
    BubblesNeverDies said:

    epsom_bubbles said:

    I read that a significamt percentage of players are choosing not to have the jab. Does anyone know what percentage of the West Ham squad have been jabbed? Klopp says 99% of his squad are vaccinated

    Hmm. A PL squad is maximum 25 players, 99% of that is 24.75. One of them is only three-quarters vaccinated. ;)
    The registered senior squad is max 25, but U23 players don’t need to be registered, so if you include the U23 first team players that boosts it, and if you include the PL2 squad that boosts it some more.
  • SlackerSlacker
    Burnley- Villa called off two hours before ko.
    Absolute joke.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    I am not sure they set any rules such as 16 squad players available plus a goalkeeper, and allowing u23 keepers to be temporarily added as necessary. This gives a set cut off to be able to play or not. If they say they will use a case by case basis it's harder to refuse.

    Football aside it's not a bad thing to call them off as it can't be helpful packing 40k people together at this time. It's like we learnt nothing from the Cheltenham festival fiasco.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    In October Premier League reported that 81% of players had received a single vaccination and 68% had received two which was slightly more than the average for UK men aged 20-30

    Those figures have probably gone up in the last two months
  • KuchinghammerKuchinghammer
    rel="Kuchinghammer">FIA, UEFA.... and next, the EPL. Unless they lay down clear rules for Covid postponements, and apply them to all clubs, the fixture list will become a complete shambles.
    So, shambles it is. ...

  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    PL announce there'll be no suspension of the league.

    There are, apparently, talks between clubs and authorities to scrap FA Cup replays in rounds three and four, and to reduce EFL Cup semi-final ties to one-leg matches.

    Which seems sensible.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Instead, clubs have been advised if they have 13 fit players, plus a goalkeeper, they should fulfil their games.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    edited December 2021
    Surely should have been 14 plus a goal keeper to allow three subs?

  • IronHerbIronHerb
    I think they are saying EPL Squad players. You can still put the kids on the bench.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Boxing Day games Liverpool v Leeds and Wolves v Watford off due to covid.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    So we have to play Soton on 26th, and 2 days later play Watford who will have had a nice long break, seems fair.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    If Watford can’t get a fit side together for Sunday seems a stretch to believe they’ll all be fit and well for Tuesday.
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    thorn, As long as they have enough fit players to be able to put a team out for us to beat I really haven’t got a problem. 😉
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    buffy, It’s as fair as Spurs playing Liverpool on Sunday when we had the weekend off. Regrettably we saw how much good it did us last night. ☹️
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    edited December 2021
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    thornburyiron said:

    If Watford can’t get a fit side together for Sunday seems a stretch to believe they’ll all be fit and well for Tuesday.

    A number of players will be out of quarantine Monday and Tuesday and therefore be considered as fit.
  • mikemike
    I can't attend the southampton game but i didn't get the usual email from the club asking if i cannot attend you can relist it on ticket exchange.?
    I wonder if it's something to do with showing a covid pass?
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