Premier League footballers have been notable for their silence recently around the benefits of the Covid vaccination.
So reluctant are they to promote the jab that a planned campaign video featuring the biggest players is said to have been abandoned for a lack of volunteers.
It is understood clubs hoped players would use their role-model status to encourage young people to get immunised, though they were not helped in that task by the relatively high number of footballers who have declined the jab.
Ipswich striker Joe Pigott has given his support for the vaccine saying it was a 'must' for him
Yet one player is prepared to speak up and said he got jabbed both to do his bit for society and to protect vulnerable loved ones.