The Championship club’s decision to educate and inform their squad on vaccination is paying off with a strong turnout
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It is Monday afternoon at Brockway Medical Centre in Nailsea and parked outside is the unmistakable bright red Bristol City team bus. Fresh from training, players and staff file into an outdoor marquee before, one by one, being called in for their Covid vaccination booster, after 98% received two jabs. It is an encouraging number, given the English
Football League revealed that, as of November, one in four of its players did not intend to get jabbed.
“Did it hurt?” the club’s chief executive, Richard Gould, asks the teenage midfielder Alex Scott, who smiles and shakes his head.