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BK
bkman1990
BBC Sport is reporting that the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield is being postponed which could harm the players income for entering other tournaments when the new season is due to begin later on in the year.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Apparently Sky Sports are launching a pause subscription - option tomorrow ..... More details available in the morning.


You can do it now over the phone, but the option goes online tomorrow morning. Sky pretty much emailed this out yesterday to Sky subscribers. Nothing has been mentioned on how this effects those watching on Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk.

Thanks for that, that email got overlooked amongst every other company I've ever bought anything from emailing to tell me what they are doing about the virus
HC
Hatton Cross

If you were hoping to see a repeat of either Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest or the Classic Tetris World Championship, then it turns out they were already shown on Monday. That's not to say they won't get rolled out again...


A repeat of a hot dog eating contest. Repeats for the viewers. Repeats of a different kind for the contestants!
BR
Brekkie
BBC Sport is reporting that the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield is being postponed which could harm the players income for entering other tournaments when the new season is due to begin later on in the year.

The players income isn't the issue here. The bigger thing is this would have been good content for the over 70s housebound for 3 months. for a couple of weeks ago. However as all theatres are now shut I guess it would have had to be cancelled anyway.
GE
thegeek Founding member
If I write here that the AFL kicks off shortly (behind closed doors), will that jinx it?
And now suspended until the end of May. The last match of the weekend is playing out now.

There are two A-League games scheduled tomorrow (morning UK time) - I wouldn't hold my breath!
JA
JAS84
All rugby union except the Premiership has been cancelled.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/51974684

Since Saracens are already relegated due to salary cap breaches, they should just send them down, promote Championship leaders Newcastle Falcons in their place (they have an 18 point lead and a perfect record for the season, won every game), and leave it at that.
BR
Brekkie
JAS84 posted:
All rugby union except the Premiership has been cancelled.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/51974684

Since Saracens are already relegated due to salary cap breaches, they should just send them down, promote Championship leaders Newcastle Falcons in their place (they have an 18 point lead and a perfect record for the season, won every game), and leave it at that.

The sensible thing to do. I do hope we don't see loads of legal action after all this is done - a waste of everyone's resources.


I do think it is time now for the FA to scrap the FA Cup for this year and EFL axe the play offs - but although the latter ends the post season stage by 5 matches guess teams 4th to 6th in Championship would want to challenge the it if 3rd went up automatically.
DV
DVB Cornwall
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BR
Brekkie
4 weeks. They still don't get it. Even if they don't postpone they need to set some alternative dates just in case.
JO
Jonwo
I think with so many tournaments going for August/September, it might not be feasible for the Olympics to air during this period.
BR
Brekkie
That's why they need to get a date. October I think had already mentioned but not without it's own issues as we saw with the cancelled World Cup games last year.
DO
dosxuk
4 weeks. They still don't get it. Even if they don't postpone they need to set some alternative dates just in case.


In 4 weeks though we will have a much better idea of the timescales we're looking at for being able to put on that scale of event again. There's no point doing an FA style putting it off for a really short timescale and then adjusting as needs be. I'd agree though that the decision to postpone needs to be announced, when they're moving it to can wait until they're sure of a date.

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