Game on
A few things which are still going on, in spite of coronavirus:
— Football in Belarus, where the 2020 season recently began. Choice fixture over the weekend is Sunday’s clash between league-leaders FC Minsk and BATE.
— Practice games in Sweden’s 5th and 6th divisions are going ahead as gatherings of fewer than 50 people are still allowed. Fifth division Skabersjo IF, who last week played sixth division Vastra Ingelstad, aren’t allowed their usual supporters, however – last season they had an average gate of 70.
— Bets were still being taken last week for the Setka Cup, a table tennis competition in Moscow, and for Taipei’s Super Basketball.
Father figures
Bernie Ecclestone is to become a father again at the age of 89. There are a number of apparent candidates for the title of the world’s oldest father:
— Ramjit Raghav, an Indian farmer, was claimed to be 96 when his son Ranjeet was born in 2012.
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