Coronavirus in sport

[Lineker]

Catch-all thread (pardon the pun) to mostly save @Baddar clicks.

The EFL has just suspended all games until at least April 4th. 

[FestiveJack]

Premier League has now suspended games until April 3rd at the earliest 

[Colly]

This is an outrage. I have a £1 free bet that's due to expire soon, what am I supposed to do with that?

[FestiveJack]

Bet on Ulaaan Bataar? 

[MDK]

Kabadi league, obviously

[stokeriño]

All scheduled Champions League and Europa League fixtures (including those previously set to be played behind closed doors) have also been postponed.

UEFA say they will further discuss European football's response to the outbreak (perhaps inc. Euro 2020?) at a videoconference next Tuesday.

[Colly]

FA Cup quarter finals postponed.

[Cymbols]

British ice hockey season is over 

[DavidMarrio]

Can't wait to watch Esports on repeat

[Baddar]

That's this weekend's acca plans out the window. 

[MDK]

Must be some football on somewhere in the world. 

[Baddar]

West Ham players have gone into self isolation as well. 

It appears the postponement will go on past the dates given in April. 

[Colly]

As it stands Germany haven't cancelled yet. I think.

Also thus far non league is still going and I think my daughters U8s game is on, though not sure if Ladbrokes have a market. Paddy Power probably have.

[Baddar]

I think German football is suspending after today/this weekend. 

[Adam]

21 minutes ago, MDK said:

Must be some football on somewhere in the world. 

Come round my gaff, we'll get an EWB Indoor Football tournament going.

[The Buscher]

Sports are an escape.  2-3 hours to just sorta forget about whatever shit you went through that day, crappy stuff in the news, etc.  It’s a diversion and something you can always look forward to no matter what.

The only time in my life I remember sports fully shutting down was 9/11.  And there weren’t as many leagues operating at that time of year, plus after about a week things went back to normal.

This is the entire industry shutting down for at least a month, possibly longer.  Completely understandable of course, it just feels so freaking weird.

[MDK]

7 minutes ago, Adam said:

Come round my gaff, we'll get an EWB Indoor Football tournament going.

Sneaky two footer into a nest of tables 

[Lineker]

Formula 1 has announced Bahrain and Vietnam Grands Prix have been postponed as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

[gunnar hendershow]

12 minutes ago, B-li Manning said:

Sports are an escape.  2-3 hours to just sorta forget about whatever shit you went through that day, crappy stuff in the news, etc.  It’s a diversion and something you can always look forward to no matter what.

The only time in my life I remember sports fully shutting down was 9/11.  And there weren’t as many leagues operating at that time of year, plus after about a week things went back to normal.

This is the entire industry shutting down for at least a month, possibly longer.  Completely understandable of course, it just feels so freaking weird.

Yeah there will be no sports for awhile, at least that we have an access to. I'm aware that in the southern hemisphere there aren't as many cases and many of their sports leagues are continuing as normal but that's probably not going to last for much longer.

It's obviously for the best and you can't risk anywhere from hundreds of athletes being in such close proximity to each other and then going back to families, etc. It won't do much to stop the spread.

The week after 9/11 was totally different because we knew they'd be coming back and when they'd be back, with this it could be a few weeks, few months, maybe not until the winter or next spring? Who knows?

[RazorsEdge]

Most of our sport is still going ahead but behind closed doors bar motorsport which is up in the air at the moment. As of Monday crowds of more than 500 people are banned anyway. Stupidly rugby league still played a match in front of what I believe was a capacity crowd this evening, why they are risking it is beyond me.