EFL Stops Match-Day Testing to Prevent Fixture Disruption
The English Football League (EFL), which is composed of all professional football clubs in the Championship, League One, and League Two, has announced that match-day testing will be stopped in order to limit the impact of fixture disruption, which has become a potent problem over the festive period. After receiving advice from medical experts, the EFL will now only conduct match-day tests on players if they express symptoms. The Times has the story.
The EFL has scrapped match-day testing for Covid in an attempt to limit fixture disruption for clubs and supporters.
The decision has been taken after consultation with medical advisers after it became clear that the existing requirement was causing concern and uncertainty at clubs as well as affecting fans.
Cancellations of matches due to the combination of Covid and injuries have been widespread throughout the EFL, with last-minute postponements bringing practical and financial challenges.
Over the past week, EFL chiefs have sought advice from medics and have now decided to remove match-day testing, other than for any symptomatic individuals. Correspondence to clubs was circulated yesterday.
The approach is supported by the league’s board, executive and a significant number of club doctors and fits with the EFL’s commitment to play matches. They insist the health and safety of players is not being compromised.
The decision was also taken in the knowledge that players are effectively in a bubble leading up to a game and, for example, may be with the team in a hotel. They are not out socialising.
An EFL spokesman said: “Over the past week, it has become clear that the requirement for match-day testing has caused significant concern and uncertainty at clubs as well as seriously affecting the supporters of those teams.
“As a result, the League revisited the matter with its Medical Advisors and after careful consideration, which included dialogue with a significant number of club doctors, it was determined that the requirement for matchday testing would be removed, except for those individuals who display Covid symptoms.
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Let’s just stop testing everyone anyway! It’ll be interesting to see what happens to cases now there has been a shortage of tests over the last two days. I guarantee the positive tests won’t fall dramatically (even though they should) because the government have been rigging the numbers since day one
If you had to pay retail for every test, this would have ended the same week it started.
there is that to it,
Someone posted this on the LockdownSceptics subreddit:
“I feel the “generosity” of the public sector has been one of the reasons England has been particularly silly with regard to testing.
Everyone thinks the tests are free. Clearly, they’re not actually free. I want to give them all a good shake and remind them:
“Every time you do another pointless test, you are taking public funds that could’ve been spent on employing doctors or feeding the homeless, and giving it to some fraudulent pharmaceutical company. Get a grip!””
The same delusions about “vaccines” being “free” apply. The stuff and all the costs e.g. paying GPs to administer it is all from the public purse and will be a drain for years to come, even if it all stopped tomorrow.
Dishy Rishi shakes his Magic Money tree and smiles. It’s very easy spending other people’s money.
Each PCR test costs the taxpayer between £30 to £70 depending on location!!
It would be fascinating to see that broken down – a slice for production costs, a slice for research and development, a slice for propaganda, etc. As a rule in the pharmaceutical sector, expenditure on propaganda FAR EXCEEDS the costs of research, development, and production all combined.
Oh, these coups d’etat don’t come cheap…
I’d also like to see what COULD HAVE BEEN BOUGHT INSTEAD [but hasn’t] with the money used for unnecessary jabbing and testing
Currently in the region of £240 million per week.
thirty pounds? That’s insane. And they’re doing millions of the wretched things.
Good point. And some of these hypochondriac multiple self-testing nose-pokers who are terrified they might have a killer disease if they’ve got a mild cold, or even if they haven’t got anything wrong with them at all apart from mentally, and who choose to waste large quantities of public resources, would LOVE it if we members of the critical community were given lower-grade treatment on the NHS than zombies such as themselves, because in their sick minds it’s we who are the antisocial parasites.
They kinda confuse being unthinkingly obedient to their “betters” with being socially minded.
Kurt Schlicter’s comment still holds true: some people love the pandemic.
A friend of a friend does a lateral flow test every day and has had numerous PCR tests (she lives close to a testing centre). She’s a great virtue signaller in all areas of life. She finally got a positive result in November – a day before she was due to go to Dubai on holiday. What can you say???
You can say “ha ha ha ha ha ha…..”
While in hospital since 20/12/21 I’ve been given a LF test every other day as have the other 14 patients on this sealed (‘vulnerable’) ward and all 24/7 staff.
So maybe 40-50 such tests × 5, all negative, which will not have enhanced their scary totals. One small ward, one hospital.
While in hospital since 20/12/21 I’ve been given a LF test every other day as have the other 14 patients on this sealed (‘vulnerable’) ward and all 24/7 staff.
So maybe 40-50 such tests × 5, all negative, which will not have enhanced their scary totals but will certainly have been costly. One small ward, one hospital.
Sorry to hear you’re in hospital and sorry you have to have these tests. Hope both situations disappear soon.
The scam begins when (hopefully not) you test positive in hospital. And then you’ll be added to the positive tests every day until there’s a negative one, when you’ll drop off – but you will count multiple times as a positive test, making things look very scary.
This is essential listening… once more hat-tip James!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3XwOV1wKzLGS/
So the peer reviewed science paper setting the gold standard for International PCR testing made it to publication via a top flight medical journal within 26hrs of presentation… where as the process typically takes seven months to complete?
But no one’s really interested… no one seems to care?
And strange too don’t you think that Dr. Fauci – that leading global health influencer and key Gates stooge – deeply involved in years long gain of function mischief via that lab in Wuhan, and within months of the “virus” release had the dominant positioning of bio-tech pharma companies all set and ready for just such a “plague” pandemic, including long held patent filings, to enable the quick release of their warp speed “vaccines” the only cure in town…
https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-COVID-19-Inoculations-More-Harm-Than-Good-REV-Dec-16-2021.pdf
But no one’s really interested… no one seems to care?
P U S H B A C K H A R D N O W O R N E V E R
Good post.. I agree with all the points you make..
Excellent point FrankF..
Today’s figure is just out:
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
“cases” (i.e. positive tests) 189213
Cue some dramatic headlines in the MSM.
Meanwhile, here is the 7-day moving average for reported deaths “with Covid”. Note that the y-axis is shown starting from 0. It hasn’t been shown beginning from a high positive number in order to make the drop look steeper. The reported death rate “with Covid” is falling fast.
even if it was exponential won’t be a million cases by tomorrow
The discrepancy between HUGE numbers of cases produced by tests and the handful of hospitalised/dead is the giveaway: this isn’t about your health!
This is like partygate – the photos proved there was nothing ANY of those top people were worried about – the ‘risk’ wasn’t what they were telling the British public it was.
This is the same. If we were in the grip of a deadly virus you would need to test – ALL the time – not just decide to dispense with tests because on a given day it is “inconvenient”
Why doesn’t ‘covid pragmatism’, like this common sense decision, ever end covid?
Why aren’t ‘lessons learned’?
Because socialism is a symptom of a learning disability
It’s more a symptom of an infantilised mind- that’s why people tend to get less left-wing as they get older and become adult. Some people stay sufficiently privileged and disconnected from the real world to remain socialist all their lives, in the same way a well-fed house cat will behave like a kitten even when fully grown.
There’s that downtick monkey again… Fuckwit
In Communist Poland these types were called ‘Smutni Panowie’ – lit. ‘Sad men’. The mac wearing security services.
It will. We are at the beginning of the end. But it’s going to be a long drawn out process to dismantle all the covid machinery. A bit like demobilising after a war, it takes time.
But people are done with this crap.
Here’s an idea:
Fascist
That idea would now require a political revolution ,so completely unworkable.
Oh, DB, that is just so, like, old-school – I just isn’t scientific enough!
“The decision has been taken after consultation with medical advisers after it became clear that the existing requirement was causing concern and uncertainty at clubs as well as affecting fans.”
Oh, you finally noticed?
Dumbarses!
Interesting that it’s Ok to apply this to elite performers but try flying or getting into somewhere that requires a test by telling them you didn’t bother because you didn’t have any symptoms and you want to avoid concern, anxiety etc.
Until the international travel restrictions are gone, we are still in semi-prisons. I think that’s the real test of the ‘Covid game’.
They could be gone if the people working in airports and harbours (and at Eurostar) refused to check any ‘Covid paperwork’. But they won’t refuse because they are good little jobsworths of The State.
‘Covid’ would stop in a day if everyone just said ‘fuck off!’ to the tests and face masks and general bollocks of it all.
And if doctors stopped stamping ‘Covid’ on death certificates.
Here’s an interesting one: the UK digital identity and attributes trust framework.
Yeah, right.
But if the supposedly distributed or “non-centralised” feature of this has any reality to it, it makes you wonder whether the rulers might be aiming to meet their “Deagel target” (British population 14m by 2025) – and if so, whether they might be looking at a Phnom Penh or perhaps a Hiroshima type solution for London.
From a military point of view the only reason not to have a strong central database is because you think it, or communications with it, or both, could get zapped, leaving you in the doo-doo.
Fasten your seatbelts for a bumpy ride.
I think it means that it will be based on Blockchain (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain)
Gotta love the dedication.. working on the 27th December..
If this was truly about the risk of passing on a life threatening disease, the EFL would not be allowed to change the rules. This quite clearly tells us – as those with enough nous have known for months, that the real risk from this disease is minimal, unless you’re in the tiny minority of people who are truly vulnerable
Exactly
… and how many of them play professional football?
‘unless you’re in the tiny minority of people who are truly vulnerable’
and vulnerable people have always had to be careful when colds and flu are about….
‘and vulnerable people have always had to be careful when colds and flu are about….’
Exactly! And we’ve never shut down society to protect those who are vulnerable to such respiratory diseases! Why now?
I’m not too sure what the government (joke of a) are playing at or have up their sleeve, but I was talking to a friend about 4 weeks ago who is fairly senior within a voluntary NGO. He informed me that they have been requested by the government to arrange for volunteers to be available from the 4th Jan to assist with mass testing.
@SmellyMelly
Something is definitely going on. Sajid Javid says he has tripled the order for LFD tests for January and February, raising it to 300 million per month.
Will they be going door to door? Or banning the untested from supermarkets maybe?
They’re up to something with those damned tests.
Javid also says (speaking like some kind of David Brent take-off) that he will be “bringing new products on board and accelerating their deployment to the public”.
New products, huh?
Tests that always give positive results, perhaps?
Or are we talking about a huge order for midazolam, in packets with little pictures of teddy bears on?
What client area does the NGO that your friend works for specialise in? The elderly, children, chronically ill, disadvantaged areas,…?
My theory on the above is that PCR testing will be withdrawn, replaced with LFT which is in line with the US CDC’s recent advice.
And, even more reliable.Lol.. But, what’s it matter anyway. – well in any sane world it would not.
And, made in Cheena.
They must be pissing themselves laughing.
The current PCR test has been withdrawn but there are many other now FDA approved PCR tests that they will be using.
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-emergency-use-authorizations-medical-devices/in-vitro-diagnostics-euas-molecular-diagnostic-tests-sars-cov-2
Hilarious!!
Oh, it’s not convenient to test positive so you don’t need to test.
I can see that this is progress, of course, but how bloody hypocritical.
I wonder if those friends and family members who cut contact with me when I said this would all end if we simply stopped testing will re-evaluate?
Not that I fucking care, TBH.
One of the biggest crimes of this whole shambles, the damage done to people’s relationships with family and friends. And some say this has been a deliberate tactic too. Utterly shameful if true.
Sadly this has been my experience. Over the past 20 months several friends and family members have chosen to sever contact with me. I now feel that my husband is my only true friend.
At least you have him.
Agreed – and I do think it is deliberate
Wow, the regime really is falling apart at the seams. Love the way all this new medical and scientific information suddenly appears on the scene.
quite right too.
Another Doctor speaks out. Fetal Risk Whistleblower OBGYN Doctor “The Vaccine Increased The Death Rate 25 Fold In 10 Months”
They must have some genius medics – it’s only taken them all this time to realise positive test does not = illness/inability to play.
But there again their hands are tied by the Rules of Clown World.
If they know even a shred about immunology they know it ain’t about a virus.
We’ve got a huge battle ahead to save the original homo sapiens.
Just look at Italy.
But it is fine to “inconvenience” the customers apparently.
the professional football authorities in England disgust me.
i’m a regular at my PL club of over 50 years. Some kinds of discrimination are perfectly acceptable it seems. Other kinds need gestures making at every match.
Ah!
Enlightened self-interest breaks out in the EFL.
When it hits their pockets, common sense triumphs.
It’s only taken two years…
A treat for those just about to eat dinner.. 😉
Well, you’ve got to have a laugh at these f*ckers..
It’s the 30th of December, I can confirm with high confidence:
That is the most horrifying thing I’ve seen all year.
Me too.. I very near spewed in my spag-bol.. Once seen, never forgotten..
Is that really him??!
This could be career-ending (or an arrestable offence).
Barf…..
‘kin hell.
“Balmy new year weather ideal for outdoor parties, say UK meteorologists“.
If you want to know what you should do, always “follow the science”. They might let you have a midazolam party before they burn you at the stake and they all dance around you chanting “Whoop whoop whoop for graphs, percentages, and, positivism!” and “Quantity fir$t and foremo$t!”
https://www-rki-de.translate.goog/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Wochenbericht/Wochenbericht_2021-12-30?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
Brilliant.
But not unexpected by us.
Bound to be on the BBCsoon!
You can never be “fully vaccinated” silly, keep up, it’s shot 4 now! 🙂
Gosh, you really can send people quite nutty when you get your hands on a printing press.
I can imagine you sitting there trying your hardest to be sarcastically nonchalant about this site’s journalists. But, like a good snowflake, you’ve had your series of SARS‑CoV‑2 jabs and boosters. And you are feeling a bit winded of late, you don’t feel like you used to. Constantly tired. Weird feelings running through your body. There’s fear under the surface, but, being a good snowflake, you bury it. And tell yourself that the constant ill-feelings you’ve had since the first jab are simply signs that they are working. But, yet your subconscious draws you to sites like this. In essence, deep inside, you are looking for answers for something that just doesn’t seem right. But you consciously hide this subconscious seeking of truth behind a foolish nonchalance that directs childish ridicule at what is being related on this site. You could attempt rebut what’s being offered here. But you can’t, because your subconscious tells you that you are living proof that what’s being said here is much nearer the truth than the abnormal feelings of illness which the “curative medications” you took have left you with. Vaccines and medicines are supposed to protect and cure you, not make you… Read more »
I meant the press at large tbh. Sometimes you have to sit back and just look at the whole shitshow in amazement, you know?
Hey, check this out, sixth time’s the charm! Lol. :
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/netherlands-announces-plan-dole-out-6-vaccine-doses
If a little is good, and more is better, then way too much is just about right!
Now those are some boosters.
They certainly look as if they are designed to entice “injections”.
SARS‑CoV‑2 Gene Manipulation Serums and their Associated Patents: Graphene & Hydrogels: Moderna has patented Hydrogel – US8415325B2.Hydrogels are also mentioned in a second Moderna patent.Hydrogel is listed in a Johnson & Johnson patent. Hydrogels are made from Graphene Oxide. Graphene Oxide is metallic, hence the many reports showing magnets adhering to the sites of SARS‑CoV‑2 gene serum injection sites. It’s very important to beware that Graphene Oxide and Hydrogels are present in the SARS‑CoV‑2 gene manipulating serums. Hydrogels have been developed in order to deliver nanoparticle-containing technology into the human body. Many injections of gene serum are needed to get the required amount of these nanoparticles into the human body, hence the roll-out of endless booster shots. These nanoparticles assemble inside the human body. When assembled, like microscopic computerised scanners, they’ll be able to gather information about the body, and microscopic transmitters will then send this information to, say, a smart phone and onwards to a centralised database. All of which gives us Genetically Modified Humans. All the patents linked to above, except one, mention “complementary DNA” or cDNA. cDNA is basically where the mRNA gene serums alter human DNA. When an agricultural biotechnology company alters the DNA of a… Read more »
SARS‑CoV‑2 Gene Manipulation Serums and their Associated Patents: Graphene & Hydrogels: Moderna has patented Hydrogel – US8415325B2. Hydrogels are also mentioned in a second Moderna patent. Hydrogel is listed in a Johnson & Johnson patent. Hydrogels are made from Graphene Oxide. Graphene Oxide is metallic, hence the many reports showing magnets adhering to the sites of SARS‑CoV‑2 gene serum injection sites. It’s very important to beware that Graphene Oxide and Hydrogels are present in the SARS‑CoV‑2 gene manipulating serums. Hydrogels have been developed in order to deliver nanoparticle-containing technology into the human body. Many injections of gene serum are needed to get the required amount of these nanoparticles into the human body, hence the roll-out of endless booster shots. These nanoparticles assemble inside the human body. When assembled, like microscopic computerised scanners, they’ll be able to gather information about the body, and microscopic transmitters will then send this information to, say, a smart phone and onwards to a centralised database. All of which gives us Genetically Modified Humans. All the patents linked to above, except one, mention “complementary DNA” or cDNA. cDNA is basically where the mRNA gene serums alter human DNA. When an agricultural biotechnology company alters the DNA… Read more »
This sounds spot on to me and certainly explains all the booster crap.
Of course if the 5G conspiracies are correct the nano technology could be used to eliminate people.
And some people think this horror story is coming to an end…
Sorry just read your comment, that you raise the same point about 5G.
Remember the Diamond Princess cruise ship, the test run for this hoax at the very start of the shit show? The boat had 5G installed – very unusual considering the guests would not have had compatible technology back then.
Another “conspiracy theory” that even those who comment on this website laughed about and mocked, which will in time become common knowledge.
We’re yet to see what will happen when they switch 5G on across the country…
They claim 5G is solely for faster internet speeds. Faster speeds are probably needed in certain financial areas, but people in most of the country couldn’t physically work hard enough or long enough to justify the vast expense of installing 5G masts. 4G is more than adequate for the vast majority of businesses and private users. 5G is needed, though, if the bodily statistics and habits of millions of citizens are to be sent to central processing stations on a 24/7 basis. Couple this with the electric smart meters they are installing at an enormous rate. These meters will read and send an awful lot of personal information about the customer’s home-life habits. The Cabal will know more about the typical citizen, then he or she will know themselves. And when they have the nano-technology installed in human bodies, how long until they’ll be able to send messages via 5G to this nano-technology instructing it to cause pain in the human host? Perhaps, the human hosts displayed some wrong-think on Social Media and needed to be punished, so as to correct this wrong-think. For instance, they could instruct the nano-technology to irritate or paralyse the… Read more »
He really is obnoxious.
I can think of stronger descriptions.
Are they removing all testing or only match day testing? You know, when they will be face to face with people they don’t normally associate with. It’s it’s all testing Yay, if it’s match day testing because “it’s an inconvenience” then that’s an absolute disgraceful level of hypocrisy!
Very convenient these experts – always approving what you want anyway.
A pity the management don’t kick government asses, to allow the players unfettered, normal shin kicking.
Loving the thread. Just had a personal giggle, they’re calling them LFTs but really they should be called RATs 🐀 (Rapid Antigen Tests)
Last time I checked an LFT was a liver function test
any measure to curb the football monomania is a happy side effect.
Off topic, but my sons NYE party has just been cancelled. His friend who was hosting the party is a retained fireman. He cancelled the party as he just wants to just get out of the village, as he’s been called out to an unusual number of suicides this week. It’s the fire services job to gather up the body and clean up the area.
Also a relative of mine works in social services and she said in her area they are seeing 2 or 3 youth suicides a week now, when it’s usually 5 or 6 a year. The youths who are committing suicide are usually male high achievers who have lost hope and can see no future.
That’s terrible.
“it was determined that the requirement for matchday testing would be removed, except for those individuals who display Covid symptoms.”
Yeah, but, yeah, but what about all those ‘asymptomatic’ ‘cases’?
Football matches go ahead. A New Variant-of-Concern emerges. Football fans get blamed. Leading to more lockdowns, more face masks, more jabs, and more lessons that will be learned.
SAGE are just playing with everyone and having a grand old time of it.
I don’t think people are going to put up with another variant.
I’m actually quite certain they will, and that there is another one going to be pulled out of SAGE’s hat shortly.
I’ve just seen this happen too often, over and over again – we all knew there was going to be a ‘variant’ just before Christmas, and they had the neck to actually do it and bring out The Omicron.
Remember my words. I have made a note right here beside me that I am predicting this to happen, let’s say before April. I’ll hold on to this note because I am interested myself to see if I’m correct.
I have also mentioned to my partner that we should, for fun, write our predictions down as to what will happen during 2022 and what the situation will be by the end of next year… put those predictions into envelopes, seal them, and open them in a year’s time.