At last, a footballer with the brains and the balls to say how it is regarding changing room attitudes to Covid-19. “People who think Covid is a myth are . . . I can’t say what I want to say . . . are idiots, basically,” Tom Barkhuizen, the Preston North End forward, says. “I think you are a fool if you believe the conspiracies, that [the vaccine] is bad for you and blah, blah, blah. Because I’ve had it [Covid], and you don’t want it.”
Hallelujah. The dearth of sane, candid views about vaccine-hesitancy from within football — the absence of any voices at all! — has been truly bewildering.
On a number of occasions since the pandemic struck, when footballers were in the
