Kyrie Irving, Jurgen Klopp & The Premier League's Vaccination Fight

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Hosts Dan Bardell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes are joined by The Athletic's Adam Crafton and Tas Melas (of NBA podcast 'No Dunks' fame) to dive into sport's global vaccination effort... Why the Premier League are still lagging behind major US sports leagues in terms of vaccine uptake, the 'conspiracy culture' in English football, how Qatar's vaccine mandate could rock the boat ahead of the World Cup next year and how Wolves managed to vaccinated their entire squad. Plus, more on the curious case of NBA superstar Kyrie Irving: Un-vaxxed and so un-able to play! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and I'm Floyoy Hughes. And welcome to the Athletic Football
0:19.7	Podcast where every Wednesday we pick up one article from all the brilliant writing available on the athletic and put the authors under the spotlight.
0:27.0	Ervick, step back, a three!
0:31.0	Kyrie Ervick with his own version of the electric slide.
0:35.0	It's obviously annoying that I've caught twice, but I haven't been vaccinated.
0:41.0	Vaccinated or unvaccinated.
0:43.0	We can't have a discussion as to why we want to be vaccinated or why we don't want to be vaccinated.
0:48.9	It's just you're that side, we're this side. side. Today our focus is on a bumper piece contributed to by athletic journalists on both sides of the
1:01.9	Atlantic. It's called Sport and the global
1:04.4	vaccine fight. Taz Melis, host of our NBA podcast No Dunks and the athletics Adam Crafton,
1:09.9	will join us shortly to discuss the mixed figures in the US and the UK, dressing
1:15.1	room conspiracies and the weird secrecy around football and the COVID-19
1:19.0	vaccine. We're also going to hear from the last person I want to hear from after Villas
1:23.6	collapse. It's Tim Spears on how wolves have managed to buck the trend
1:26.7	when it comes to the vaccine uptake from Premier League Footballers. Obviously going to
1:31.0	be great speaking to Taz as well. He's going to break down the big story.
1:34.2	We've all been hearing about with NBA style Kory Irving, who is unvaccinated and unable to play.
1:39.6	Right then Flo, let's bring on this week's guests. A big welcome to Taz Melas, host of the No Dunks podcast, one of the original basketball
1:49.3	podcasts and we're also joined by Adam Crafton, who is a reporter for the athletic as well.
1:54.8	Welcome guys a pleasure to have you on.
1:57.4	Let's start then Taz with you. The NBA now for people who don't know much
2:02.4	about Kyrie Irving I like my NBA.
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