Ban football to help bring pandemic under control – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Professor J.A. Double, Carlinghow Hill, Batley.
Leeds United players celebrate a goal - should professional football be continuing during the lockdown?Leeds United players celebrate a goal - should professional football be continuing during the lockdown?
Leeds United players celebrate a goal - should professional football be continuing during the lockdown?

I HAVE just listened to the latest news highlighting the number of Covid cases amongst professional footballers and how this is putting fixtures in doubt.

I would ask why are they still playing at all. Football is clearly not a non-contact sport and the times players spit on the pitch in the current circumstances amounts to criminal negligence.

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I do not know why football seems to have been given special exemption from that of other outdoor activities. It needs to be banned until Covid is totally under control.

Leeds United goal celebrations.Leeds United goal celebrations.
Leeds United goal celebrations.

From: David Horncastle, Birkdale Close, Bessacarr, Doncaster.

I WONDER how many people feel as I do about the excessive physical contact between soccer players after one of their number scores a goal.

By all the rules that govern the rest of us, this is totally unacceptable, especially when you take into consideration that one of my friends hasn’t been able to embrace his newly-born grandchild for months.

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Let the game be played as it should be played but let the FA put a blanket ban on unnecessary physical contact. A few yellow cards should rapidly achieve this.

Boris Johnson's handling of Covid - and the lockdown - continues to divide public and political opinion.Boris Johnson's handling of Covid - and the lockdown - continues to divide public and political opinion.
Boris Johnson's handling of Covid - and the lockdown - continues to divide public and political opinion.

From: Jacqueline Hall, Scissett, Huddersfield.

INTERESTING to see the view of the professor who believes that teachers are at no more risk than other professions of getting Covid-19.

What the expert fails to recognise is that many teachers are also parents themselves or have their own parents to consider. Any positive result within their family requires them to self-isolate and therefore not attend work.

Statutory guidance requires enforceable ratios of adults to children in schools.

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When you take one teacher out of the equation the children can’t be just shared out to other classes.

It’s a matter of logistics, not infection, as to why the unions are calling for early vaccination.

Keep your teachers healthy and you can keep your schools open.

From: Ron Firth, Campsall.

THAT so many children are unable to continue their education is down to all of us to varying degrees.

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1. The wish of teaching unions to further their own standing by causing mayhem in the classroom.

2. The failure of so many people, mainly young adults, to respect the concession of a Christmas Day break from restrictions.

3. The Government’s mistake in assuming that the vast number of adults would not endanger their own health and others by ignoring the safety measures. Their stupidity is now being seen in the vast increase of hospitalisation and deaths.

From: Henry Cobden, Ilkley.

THE Yorkshire Post is ahead of the game calling out the failings of Gavin Williamson. How anyone thinks that he’s the best person for Education Secretary is beyond me – the fact he’s still in post doesn’t reflect well on the qualities of Tory MPs.

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