According to an exclusive in the Sport page of the Sunday Telegraph, English Premier League players who have refused to take the Covid vaccines are being ‘frozen out of transfers’ by clubs in Europe. If transfer negotiations are underway involving an unvaccinated player, once it becomes apparent that they are unvaccinated “the phone calls stop immediately”.
Of course, the Sunday Telegraph, having largely bought in to all manner of Covid related restrictions and still frequently making reference to the ‘successful vaccine roll out’ makes no comment. This is especially the case in relation to the candidature for the job of Prime Minister by the first and former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment Nadhim Zahawi whose roll out was, indeed, considered successful. They don’t question why some footballers may have refused the Covid vaccines, leaving readers to make up their own minds. Undoubtedly the Telegraph would call this ‘balanced reporting’; the ‘anti-vaxxers’ can make of it what they want. Likewise, the ‘pro-vaxxers’ (probably also pro-European Remainers) may make up their minds. But their silence speaks volumes.
Perhaps our Premier League players are unvaccinated because they don’t want to be. They have exercised their legitimate right to take control of what is introduced into their bodies. And why might that be? It could be related to their perception that the Covid vaccines are felling more players on the field than Vinnie Jones, Eric Cantona and Zinedine Zidane combined. And these players don’t seem to be up and running after a quick spray of embrocation from the physiotherapist; they are stretchered off… to the morgue.
Of course, it is hard to obtain the true figures for vaccine related deaths amongst footballers and, while there is clear evidence that the Covid vaccines can—and do—cause blood clotting in the case of the Astrazenaca vaccine and myocarditis in the case of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, some are keen to label any link between the vaccines and sports related deaths as ‘misinformation’ and ‘falsehood’ or even ‘the flu’. In the UK the Office for National Statistics was asked if it held any records on ‘British sports deaths since the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccinations’ in December 2021. Their reply was: “Unfortunately, we do not hold information on hospital admittance due to sudden collapse and recoveries”. How convenient!
I have no more insights into the truth behind the link between sudden deaths of footballers on the pitch than most readers but, despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to paint a positive picture of all things related to the ‘pandemic’, except the mild and relatively non-fatal nature of the SARS Cov-2 virus, it has been impossible for them not to report on sudden deaths amongst footballers. I don’t know about anyone else, but I have no recollection ever of hearing of so many. Also, how many games have been held up while paramedics cart a corpse out of the stadium, as yet another spectator succumbs to a sudden cardiac event…and is never heard of again? However, linking these deaths to the vaccines is considered ‘irresponsible’.
It often helps to look at some numbers. Wikipedia helpfully provides a site titled List of association footballers who died while playing and it shows that in the decade prior to the last year (2021) for which a full record is available that an average of 10 players died while playing with a maximum of 13 in 2016 and as few as three in each of 2011 and 2020. In 2021 there were 21 deaths amongst footballers while playing, the highest year on record. To date in 2022 there have been three deaths, but in footballing terms these are early days. Of course, these players could have died suddenly as a result of Covid but, strangely, even the vaccine obsessed and the Covid orthodox are not saying that. Make up your own mind; it is clear that many footballers have already made up theirs.
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