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• Wayne Rooney says footballers treated as 'guinea pigs'
• Manchester United's Paul Pogba sets up fundraiser and pledges financial support
• English rugby union's Premiership set to suspend season
• British horse racing could go behind closed doors, Arena Racing chief claims
• Ferrari shuts down production because of ongoing crisis
• Netball Superleague: All matches suspended with immediate effect
• What happened on a Saturday without football?
• Five Valencia players and staff including Garay test positive
• Wolves chairman Jeff Shi warns fans not to 'underestimate' virus
• How will the suspension affect football in Britain?
• Playing National League games 'just stupid'

You might have noticed that the Cheltenham Festival still went ahead and featured a very dramatic Gold Cup day.

Jockey Jamie Moore told BBC Sport of his heartache after being unseated from leader Goshen in a last-flight drama in the Triumph Hurdle.

Moore looked certain to win the race on the hot favourite, trained by his father Gary, before he was catapulted out of the saddle.

The crestfallen rider was consoled by 20-time champion jump jockey AP McCoy as he returned to the weighing room.

"From the bottom of my heart I'm so sorry," Moore wrote on Twitter, external.

"To everyone I let down I really am sorry, it's been so tough to take but it's happened."

Rugby League matches have still been played this weekend, despite the majority of sport being cancelled. And the Rugby Football League have issued a statement defending their stance.

It says: "Public health considerations – for everyone - and particularly the most vulnerable in all our communities - are everyone’s priority.

"The Rugby Football League is following and has followed at all times the Government’s advice and will continue to do so. We are in constant contact with the relevant Government Departments who are informed by the national scientific and medical experts.

"This information has been communicated directly to all clubs in the professional and community game over the previous few weeks. The Government guidance was there was no medical rationale to call off games this weekend, and this was followed by Rugby League and many other sports."

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Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has set up a fundraising page and pledged financial support to Unicef to help children affected by coronavirus.

After turning 27 on Sunday, Pogba set up the birthday fundraiser to "help fight this war against Covid-19". The France international says he will double the fund if his goal of £27,000 is reached.

"The impact of a large-scale outbreak, especially on poor and vulnerable children, can be immense," Pogba wrote. "It's my birthday and I'm always grateful that me, my family and friends are healthy. Nonetheless, not everybody is in good health right now.

"At times like this we need to come together."

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Scottish Rugby has opened a £500,000 hardship fund to assist clubs facing financial problems as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The governing body is also bringing forward collective club support payments, which exceed £500,000, by a month, to April from May. All rugby in Scotland will halt from Sunday 15 March at 18:00 GMT.

"It is important we act now and provide tangible, practical support," said chief executive Mark Dodson. "These are unprecedented times and we are acutely aware of the significant day-to-day financial challenges our member clubs will face in the coming weeks if fixtures cannot be resumed in the mid to long term and other planned fund-raising initiatives are curtailed."

Scottish Rugby will provide a link to the application process on their official website later this week.

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The spread of coronavirus around the world has impacted the staging of sporting events.

This is what has been affected so far and when.

These football club social media accounts are starting to get creative to pass the time without any sport.

We have name the player from Barnsley...

...Guess Who from Exeter...

...and a competition of best goal celebrations from Swansea. Surely Shefki Kuqi's bellyflop won this tie?

The Swedish Ice Hockey Association (SIHA) is ending the 2019-20 season immediately due to the spread of the coronavirus, with no play-offs, no champions, no promotion and no relegation.

Some matches were played last week with no fans in attendance while others were postponed, but after discussions with stakeholders the association announced the season was over.

"The coronavirus has created great concern and uncertainty throughout society. For us, the most important thing right now is to do what we can for society in general, but also to put the health of players, leaders, officials and the public first," Anders Larsson, chairman of the SIHA, said in a statement.

"The association's committee made the decision to call off the season and as a consequence is not awarding any Swedish championship this year, or playing the qualifying matches (for promotion/relegation)," the statement said.

Lulea finished top of the men's standings after the 52-game regular season ended on Thursday.

The women's season had progressed further with HV71 and Lulea/MSSK making it to the best-of-five final series which, along with the men's playoffs, has now been cancelled.

A statement from the Vitality Netball Superleague says...

"The board has taken the decision to postpone Vitality Netball Superleague fixtures with immediate effect.

"The board and all vitality Netball Superleague clubs will convene again on Tuesday 17th March where the position of the 2020 season, in light of an anticipated update on guidance from the Government, will be considered. A full statement will be issued later next week.

"We will continue to monitor the situation and keep the Netball Family updated as appropriate."

Despite no fans in the Maracana Stadium, this Brazilian commentator is on fine form as his commentary carries on as normal despite a lack of spectators.

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Rob Green on BBC Radio 5 Live: “Players get targeted a lot because criminals know when you are away from home. It’s common for it to happen in your own home, in your own drive, they can block the drive and attack you there and at schools.

“For players it’s particularly difficult because you are away a lot of the time and people know where you are. People have security come and stay in their homes which is not ideal. You don’t want strangers staying in your house really. It’s difficult to get around.

“One of the best things I did was buy a rubbish car. I didn’t have parking at my house, I left it on my street and it just blended into the other cars. You don’t get noticed when you drive down the street.”

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Horse racing fixtures in Britain could take place behind closed doors within 48 hours, says the chief of Arena Racing, owners of 16 tracks.

Martin Cruddace believes restrictions prompted by the coronavirus pandemic could last until the end of June.

"We are outliers with other parts of the racing world, but I think we should be prepared for an imminent change," Cruddace told Sky Sports Racing. "My own personal view is that could be within the next 48 hours."

Racing in England has continued after the Cheltenham Festival, with a crowd of 8,400 at Uttoxeter on Saturday for the Midlands Grand National.

Cruddace called for additional aid to allow some fixtures that would otherwise be "financially unviable" to go ahead without income from paying spectators.

For example, he said staging the All-Weather Championships Finals day at Lingfield on Good Friday behind closed doors would mean his company missed out on between £500,000 to £600,000. Arena's other tracks include Chepstow, Doncaster and Sedgefield.

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England's Premiership is set to announce a postponement to the season in the coming days because of the coronavirus outbreak.

It comes after leagues, including rugby union's Pro 14 and Top 14, confirmed last week they would be suspending games for the foreseeable future.

Clubs will discuss a range of potential next steps on Monday, with a suspension of 10 to 12 weeks likely. European Cup competitions are set to be postponed in the next 24 hours.

European tournament organisers EPCR will meet via video link on Monday to rubber-stamp the move.

XFL, an American football league that is played during the spring and summer away from the regular NFL campaign, has announced that a player from the Seattle Dragons has tested positive for coronavirus.

Six Nations tournaments after Rugby World Cups are where you expect the unexpected.

Tactical tweaks, coaching changes, new stars and old expectations are overturned as teams wipe the slate clean before the Test game's four-year cycle starts to spin once more.

But 2020 has brought more curveballs than the World Series.

Click here to read our review of the championship which has still yet to be completed.

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The Bath half marathon has gone ahead despite an outcry over it taking place during the coronavirus crisis.

The Premier League and Football League have been cancelled over the weekend but organisers denied they were being irresponsible by pressing ahead. They said said 6,200 runners took part - about half the usual number.

Andrew Taylor, director of the Bath half said he had not received any advice from public health officials not to go ahead.

He said the advice from the experts - Public Health England and the local commissioning care group - had been "consistent that this is a low-risk event, with absolutely no reason for it not to go ahead".

He said a "series of situations has unravelled almost by the hour" leaving them "caught in the eye of a perfect storm".

Ministers are drawing up plans to ban mass gatherings in the UK from as early as next weekend in response to the spread of the virus, which the World Health Organization has classified as a pandemic.