Just checking. Am I still a conspiracy theorist for believing we will have vaccine passports

For football matches or has that label now been dropped after the culture secretary confirmed they are testing vaccine passports for football matches?

 

When's the playoff final again!?

 

I hope they do only allow vaccinated fans in, its the only way my family will return. Its like wearing a seat belt, you know id for your own safety and it should be the law.

 

Are your family not going to be vaccinated?

 

For now I’ll only return if people have to have a negative test (or proof of vaccine). Not because I’m worried about me but I think it would be irresponsible of me to go to a packed stadium and then go to work in a large school, especially when there are quite a few people there who cannot have the vaccine.

 

The date is irrelevant Helen, we will already be promoted by then

 

Is it wrong of me to want a win at Wembley in front of the fans rather than automatic?

 

It was always going to happen, to be fair(or a version of it was). The Government couldn't win either way, though. Put "passports" in place for public events like football matches, and they get slagged off for using draconian measures. Let everyone on in regardless of vaccine/test result and they are endangering lives. Keep everything shut and events behind closed doors, they are destroying the economy.

I think the passport system is the fairest way, and will also make the vaccine a more attractive prospect to those on the fence about it. It will also, as long as the scheme is put into place quickly, allow for a steady ramping up of crowd numbers, what with only certain groups being eligible for it.

 

Only if we can stick it to Swansea again. We owe them one this season.

 

The thought of that makes me nervous. We have never seen this team play in front of a crowd, and we don't know how much of the great form is down to the freedom of not having folk screaming at them every time they do not get everything 100% right. Offer me 2nd spot now, and Id rip their hands off!

 

Passports might be a nice little earner for a few hard up tories

 

We’re 5th in the league, on our best run in the clubs history at this level, about to play our biggest rivals who are in turmoil and you choose to post this? Come on man just chill and enjoy the footy.

 

It's a fair point but, We’re 5th in the league, on our best run in the clubs history at this level, about to play our biggest rivals who are in turmoil and.........we still can't actually go and the route back to attending is unclear. Everytime we play without fans I find depressing, no matter how good the result its just not the same sat at home watching. It's going to be on people's minds even more so on match days.

 

Agreed mate...football shouldn't be a television program

 

Personally I have always thought we'd end up with something like a vaccine passport for international travel, for very good reasons. And I'm prepared to accept it in the short term for big events like football matches etc. I don't see how we're going to keep the pandemic under control otherwise.

 

Barnsley are doing well. Pretend we arent living under the biggest restrictions to life in 80 years.

Barnsley should have played during the war, everyone could have just ignored the blitz then

 

When you say for now. How long do you mean for? A month? 6? A year? A decade? Forever?
I don't understand that so many people say 'for now', what does that actually mean and why will they suddenly change their opinion one day and decide 'for now' has ended?

Not having a go but you're one of our more intelligent posters so I figured you're more likely to be able to answer

 

While I understand your point, I also see what Wellsie is saying too.

Many people I know, myself included have used this amazing season as a distraction from all the horrible **** going off in the world. I've told a mate on the phone this morning, that if it wasn't for the feel-good factor the club has given me in the past 6 months or so, I would have most probably decided enough was enough and done something stupid again to put an end to it all.

We have all coped in different ways. I appreciate that yours may be to talk about what is happening and debate the measures taken...

 

I’m presuming I (and the majority of the rest of the population) will be vaccinated at some point. I can’t put a date on anything because that’s arbitrary, what if I said three months and in three months all vaccines have somehow ran out and there’s 2000 deaths a day or something, would I then be out and about because that’s the random date I chose? Of course not.