It didn’t take them long to figure out there is a demand for fake certificates: various fraudsters are offering fake Covid-19 vaccination certificates to the Premier League players, Daily Mail reveals. According to the reports, understands a number of players have raised concerns with their club medical staff about the scam. Stars have been told they can have two certificates sent to their phones for only 153.000 Ksh and show them when necessary.The Big Six are the worst: First to collect the money from the Premier League, last to be vaccinatedThe Premier league doesn’t have full information about this (yet), but it’s revealed that four clubs confirmed that some of their players received those certificates. Last week, the Premier League announced that 68 per cent of their players had been fully vaccinated against Covid while 81 per cent had received at least one jab, but the numbers are not evenly spread, as some clubs have been really professional about it (Wolves, Leeds etc.), while others have much lower numbers.Newcastle keeper on Covid-19: ‘I couldn’t swallow and I’ve lost 10 kilos’But how did it come to this? Simply, the vast majority of players have refused to be vaccinated and those topics have been in the media long enough for some people to realize that they can earn money from it. A vast majority of conspiracy theories concerning fertility, health, Bill Gates etc have taken over the dressing rooms of some clubs and it’s hard to convince players to get jabbed. They are also concerned by stories of people suffering heart inflammation after taking the vaccine, even though official medical agencies have reported such cases as ‘very rare’.The German way: 94% of Bundesliga players are vaccinatedOne theory circulating among players is that Christian Eriksen’s cardiac arrest at Euro 2020 might have been linked to the jab, despite no medical evidence to support the suggestion.“It’s very frustrating and hard to know what to do, as the conspiracy theories have really taken hold in some dressing rooms. ‘We’ve got senior players, intelligent men, coming out with all sorts of nonsense and they won’t be budged. One of them told me he didn’t need the vaccine because he could boost his immunity by taking vitamins. Some of the stuff they’re reading — and believing — on the internet is incredible. Players are saying that it will make them infertile, that it’s part of a plot involving Bill Gates, the pandemic is just propaganda. The real problem is that they’re also polluting the minds of younger players” one club doctor told Sportsmail.
