Johnny Nicholson: Make clubs use their vast resources or take a Covid firebreak now
Chelsea's Christian Pulisic has a shot on goal during the Premier League match at the Molineux stadium, Wolverhampton. Picture : Nick Potts/PA Wire.Â
On a weekend where a full slate of games were played in Germany where almost everyone is vaccinated, on Plague Island most English games were called off. With it being revealed that a large minority of Premier League players have not been vaccinated, it seems too much of a coincidence that it is here that is so cursed with the virus. As everyone who isn’t a paranoid conspiracy theorist knows, the jab reduces chances of catching it and of infecting others and reduces the effects of infection. If you’ve got 25% of players exposed to the virus without protection, is it any wonder the disease is ripping through teams? The problem is, this is not going to get any better now. Not for a long time. The unvaccinated have ensured it will keep washing through clubs affecting different teams at different times, creating chaos and havoc. As a consequence, the fixture list is in serious jeopardy of collapsing, the validity of the competitions are under question.
