Kyrie Irving, Jurgen Klopp & The Premier League's Vaccination Fight
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
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!
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.8 | Hello, I'm Dan Bardell. |
| 0:16.8 | And I'm Floeloid Hughes. |
| 0:18.2 | And welcome to the Athletic Football podcast where every Wednesday we pick out one article |
| 0:22.5 | from all the brilliant writing available on the Athletic |
| 0:24.8 | and put the authors under the spotlight. |
| 0:27.8 | Irving, step back. |
| 0:29.3 | A three! |
| 0:31.3 | Kairi Irving, with his own version of the electric slide. |
| 0:35.4 | It's obviously annoying that I've caught it twice, but I haven't been vaccinated. |
| 0:41.0 | Vaccinated or unvaccinated. We can't have a discussion as to why we want to be vaccinated |
| 0:46.5 | or why we don't want to be vaccinated. It's just you're that side, we're this side. |
| 0:56.3 | Today our focus is on a bumper piece contributed to by athletic journalists on both sides |
| 1:01.8 | of the Atlantic. It's called Sport and the Global Vaccine Fight. |
| 1:05.7 | Tasmelis, host of our NBA podcast No Dunks and the Athletics, Adam Crafton, will join us |
| 1:10.5 | shortly to discuss the mixed figures in the US and the UK, |
| 1:14.8 | dressing room conspiracies and the weird secrecy around football and the COVID-19 vaccine. |
| 1:19.7 | We're also going to hear from the last person I want to hear from after Villa's weekend collapse. |
| 1:24.1 | It's Tim Spears on how wolves have managed to book the trend when it comes to the vaccine uptake from Premier League footballers. Obviously going to be great speaking to Taz as well. He's going to break down the big story. We've all been hearing about with NBA star Kyrie Irving, who is unvaccinated and unable to play. Right then, Flo, let's bring on this week's guests. A big welcome to Tas Melas, host of the No Dunks podcast, one of the original basketball podcasts. |
| 1:50.0 | And we're also joined by Adam Crafton, who is a reporter for The Athletic as well. |
| 1:55.0 | Welcome, guys, a pleasure to have you on. |
| 1:57.9 | Let's start then, Tas with you. |
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