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All of football must get behind the vaccination drive
Star sports editor BELLA KATZ asks why some top-level athletes are refusing a Covid-19 jab, and what the potential – damaging – impact might be
People queue at an NHS Vaccination Clinic at Tottenham Hotspur's stadium in north London

AS MILLIONS of people wait in a virtual queue to book their booster jab on the NHS website, some are yet to have their first — including a number of athletes at the top level.

It is a personal choice, but with rumours of damaging conspiracy theories circulating around the dressing rooms at elite football clubs, you wonder how this might have been allowed to happen.

How could such misinformation be spread around training grounds where players work closely with doctors and physiotherapists day to day? Even the stadiums they play in almost weekly opened up to the public to help provide mass vaccination.

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