Vaccine Passport to be required to attend matches?

[Brown Nose]

LM reporting but widely being predicted.

New Plan B restrictions to impact Leicester City and Foxes fans https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/breaking-covid-plan-b-boris-6320389#ICID=Android_LecesterMercuryNewApp_AppShare

For those that have attended games this season, there is a half arsed approach at present which appears to be designed to pretend that there are checks taking place.

If it's done properly, the delays getting in will be crazy. I've also witnessed several fans abusing those people doing the half arsed checking so goodness knows what will happen if they do it properly.

Personally, I'd prefer those attending matches around me to have protected themselves. Not sure how I feel about mandating it though. Although I do know someone that went to a recent game
despite knowing they'd tested positive and that really angered me.

Does the prospect of a new strain which is much more infectious make you more concerned about going to matches? Would COVID passports help?

 

[Miles Away]

Can't wait to have to explain my CDC US vaccine cards to City Stewards. Sure that will go brilliantly.

(I'm going to Man City and home v Norwich)

 

[Robin127]

Can't wait to have to explain my CDC US vaccine cards to City Stewards. Sure that will go brilliantly.

Let me know how that goes, I've been wondering how those are viewed outside the US.

 

[fox58]

LM reporting but widely being predicted.

New Plan B restrictions to impact Leicester City and Foxes fans https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/breaking-covid-plan-b-boris-6320389#ICID=Android_LecesterMercuryNewApp_AppShare

For those that have attended games this season, there is a half arsed approach at present which appears to be designed to pretend that there are checks taking place.

If it's done properly, the delays getting in will be crazy. I've also witnessed several fans abusing those people doing the half arsed checking so goodness knows what will happen if they do it properly.

Personally, I'd prefer those attending matches around me to have protected themselves. Not sure how I feel about mandating it though. Although I do know someone that went to a recent game
despite knowing they'd tested positive and that really angered me.

Does the prospect of a new strain which is much more infectious make you more concerned about going to matches? Would COVID passports help?

If the use the NHS app to verify people’s vaccine status all they’ll need is a scanner that reads the QR code

 

[tedfoxxx]

If the use the NHS app to verify people’s vaccine status all they’ll need is a scanner that reads the QR code

In principle it should be dead straightforward but that’s obviously not accounting for people with no passport trying to get in, drunk people being difficult, your anti mask ‘don’t tell me what to do’ lot kicking up a fuss and then people not being ready and fannying about with smart phones.

If they can’t handle checking 32,000 on the gate then make it ST holders only and make it so you can link a passport to your ticket before you go. That way you can practice some sort of social distancing in the ground too.

 

[SimonW]

Other countries, including Scotland, seem to be using this system without major problems.

 

[Brown Nose]

If the use the NHS app to verify people’s vaccine status all they’ll need is a scanner that reads the QR code

It's not simple.

Many people cannot get an internet connection at the ground, me included. I have to screenshot it and save it as a photo.

And what about the substantial proportion of people without vaccination evidence? If you've paid for a ticket but are not allowed in?

 

[popillius]

It's not simple.

Many people cannot get an internet connection at the ground, me included. I have to screenshot it and save it as a photo.

And what about the substantial proportion of people without vaccination evidence? If you've paid for a ticket but are not allowed in?

They should have evidence. It is very, very easy to get hold of in many different formats. If they don't have it, knowing that they may need it, then they are ****ing idiots.

 

[Jeff]

Many people cannot get an internet connection at the ground, me included. I have to screenshot it and save it as a photo.

One of the options in the app is to save it as a pdf.
And it's valid for a month so you don't have to do it before every match.

 

[Jeff]

If you've paid for a ticket but are not allowed in?

When you buy a ticket there is a warning about this. It says "Please note that conditions of entry may be imposed on this fixture after the purchase of tickets."

 

[spenno]

It's not simple.

Many people cannot get an internet connection at the ground, me included. I have to screenshot it and save it as a photo.

And what about the substantial proportion of people without vaccination evidence? If you've paid for a ticket but are not allowed in?

For iPhone users, you can add the passport to the phone’s “wallet”. This doesn’t require an Internet connection. Presuming Android has something similar.

I have had to show my COVID passport for two games this season before entering the turnstiles. It’s just a person with a clipboard who looks at your phone quickly and ticks something on their paper.

 

[Payne74]

A friend of mine that lives in Saudi came to the Arsenal game he has been jabbed twice but couldn't prove it so the guy doing the checks just took my NHS Covid details instead

 

[Brown Nose]

One of the options in the app is to save it as a pdf.
And it's valid for a month so you don't have to do it before every match.

I tried that and it didn't work. My phone doesn't recognise pdf.

 

[Payne74]

I tried that and it didn't work. My phone doesn't recognise pdf.

My Dad who is in his 70's had the same problem so he said to me I'll just act senile and stumble abit so they just ignore me, I could only say what do you mean "Act"

 

[Volpone]

I tried that and it didn't work. My phone doesn't recognise pdf.

Don't you just have to download and install the Adobe Acrobat app?

 

[Jeff]

Don't you just have to download and install the Adobe Acrobat app?

There are lots of different apps that can open them, I assumed everyone would have at least one.
I've got four on my phone that can, and none of them are pdf specific apps (Google Drive, Onedrive, MS Office and Kindle)

 

[Blue Maniac]

Don't you just have to download and install the Adobe Acrobat app?

Don’t confuse him, he can’t even crop a screenshot

 

[Jenks]

What's a 'phone' ?

 

[Blue Maniac]

What's a 'phone' ?

That thing on your wall with a big dial on it

 

[Jenks]

And a 'screenshot'?