The Premier League is getting closer, and seven days before the start, the vaccination topic is bigger than ever. It has been already reported that Premier League and several clubs were exploring the idea of inserting the Covid-19 vaccine as a condition of employment into the players contracts, but now, they have gone a step further and are seeking legal advice how to do it. With rates varying between clubs, the Premier League and EFL want to agree a uniform approach and have asked a leading employment QC to advise on whether it is lawful for the leagues or the clubs to make vaccination a mandatory pre-condition for playing.Potential trouble in the Premier League over players vaccinationIt’s basically a problem between a need for players to be vaccinated and their freedom of choice not to do so if they don’t want to. The players’ union supports vaccination in principle, but also defends freedom of choice. Other industries have mandatory vaccinations, but it won’t be like that in the Premier League. On the other hand, the league want to introduce Covid passes for the fans who are attending matches in the upcoming season, and the UK Government could make that a compulsory requirement. Premier League and EFL clubs ‘face divided dressing rooms as many stars REFUSE to have Covid vaccinations… with teams fearing they’ll start the new season without multiple players due to isolation’.(Source:@MailOnline)#premierleague #covid #vaccination #footballexpress pic.twitter.com/Eon5jBYkPu— Football Express (@FootballExpres7) August 2, 2021 And Manchester United coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer already announced he will hold a meeting with his players to encourage them to get vaccinated. United had to call off last weekend’s pre-season friendly at Preston after nine members of the squad and coaching staff tested positive, before further tests returned negative results 24 hours later.”We’ve informed the players and some of them are already fully vaccinated, some are not sure. But we’re going to have a bigger session meeting with them now, because I think it’s important that everyone knows what it’s about. The Preston situation I think was a testing mistake, because all nine tested positive and then the next day when we did a proper PCR test they were negative. But if that happened the day before the first league game, that would be a problem. That’s not our fault what happened, but it’s cost us preparation time and a couple of days away from the training ground” said the Norwegian coach.
