welcome to the programme — it's the day coronavirus changed the sporting landscape. football in the uk has nowjoined other major sports around the world by suspending play. the premier league, the efl, the scottish premiership are all on hold as well as leagues in wales and northern ireland. there've been big announcements impacting golf, formula one and rugby union's six nations too. asjoe wilson reports. it all seems to matter so much and it all seems routine, whatever else occurred there would be champions, football and sport. today england potluck football 30s

and asa today england potluck football 30s and as a suspension of games until april the 3rd at the earliest. the statement read... to be clear this goes through the professional games football week of the women's super week, off. scottish football could follow suite from the champion stent everywhere, all domestic professional and grassroots football under the jurisdiction of the scottish fa is suspended until further notice. jurisdiction of the scottish fa is suspended untilfurther notice. the reaction, will gary linacre‘s tweet sums it up... and here are some

examples. arsenal's manager tested positive for covid—19. chelsea bonsai player spoke about being positive for cova 19 and talk about it on socially. i've had the virus for the last couple of days. after going through the guidelines, for the week, i hope to see everybody $0011 the week, i hope to see everybody soon and hopefully everybody will see you soon. around the world sport is close enough. the austrian grand prix is cancelled. the masters scheduled for april is postponed. england's cricketers are being sent home from sri lanka. english cricket's governing bodies is the well being of players and support teams is paramount in what it calls com pletely teams is paramount in what it calls completely unprecedented times. looking ahead, what of the olympics and paralympics? tokyo presented a video of its mascots happily touring the world, japan's unlimited

minister announced there was no intention of cancelling or postponing the summer games. well, one thing we learned today is how quickly everything can change. joe wilson, bbc news. as we heard there, these are unprecedented times. more questions than answers at this stage winsport will resume. —— winsport will resume. there are more questions than answers at this stage about when sport will resume. in terms of the premier league its supposed to be april the 11th but that could easily change. liverpool are desperately close to sealing their first league title in 30 years, they could have won it next week but that's no longer the case. tonight managerjurgen klopp has released a statement saying: well, we know the financial situation changes dramatically in football — the further down the tier you go.

like the premier league, the football league says games are suspended games until early april and the ramifications could be huge for all involved. our reporter katie shanahan has been at rochdale today. well, this league 1 side is currently ranked 19th in the table were supposed to be playing rovers this weekend, but as you can see the covers are on, and this club really depends on those ticket sales from fans entering this stadium, but without that money coming in, it means the club will not be able to pay their players or staff the wages. earlier i spoke to the rochdale chief executive david bottomley to find out the impact the coronavirus would have on this club. we have six home games left, and if we don't play them, we will be looking at one quarter of £1 million hole in our finances at least. at least in terms of the extra revenue we would have had in those games. it wouldn't push rochdale into administration but it depends

how long it is going to go on for. if we are here in a year's time and you are asking that question, the likelihood is yes, because we couldn't go a year without a form of income. as you can see, it is completely shut and will be for the next three weeks, which could have a real impact on local businesses because, if there are no home or away fans coming into the stadium, then that could put financial pressure on the local restaurants or even the local pubs, like the dale bar you see here. as many depend on that match day revenue, and there are ultimately no profits which could mean no existence. rugby had already been affected by the coronavirus — the six nations had postponed two of this weekend's final round of fixtures... but now it's been confirmed that tomorrow's match between wales and scotland is also off. olly foster was in cardiff earlier.

it has been quite a turnaround from the welsh rugby union this morning about half past nine they put out a statement saying the match goes ahead, they were following the guidance put out by the welsh government. rememberthis, guidance put out by the welsh government. remember this, the only fixtures still standing in the final round of six nations matches but then three orfour round of six nations matches but then three or four hour later early afternoon they put on another statement saying that whilst the medical advice remains consistent, "we decided it was in the best interest of supporters, players and staff to fall in line with recent measures taken staff to fall in line with recent measures ta ken across staff to fall in line with recent measures taken across the uk and global sports industries." what happened in between those two statements? the complete shutdown of football in the uk, the premier league, the efl, and also the scottish premiership and theyjust felt they could not be the last event still standing and all those exports have taken those measures and they felt under pressure to call this match off as well. here is their chairman. this morning before

we understood what the other sporting bodies were doing as well in terms of the efl, the premier league, and plus worldwide we understood that other major global sporting events such as the austrian grand prix, the player shaping chip in jacksonville, were grand prix, the player shaping chip injacksonville, were also being pulled. —— australian grand prix. we made the decision, and we spoke to the government in terms of whether circumstances have changed, they have not changed up until the weekend but i report decided the right decision was to call the game off. that was the decision-making behind calling this off and there is now four fixtures in the six nations that will probably fingers crossed be played in the autumn. for the fa ns be played in the autumn. for the fans a huge inconvenience, many of them understand of course but many of them as well massively out—of—pocket because of the late decision in cancelling this match. the london marathon has

been moved from april until the 11th of october.. -- 4th —— 11th of october. it's the first time it's been postponed since its launch in 1981. organisers say the world is in an unprecedented situation, grappling with a global pandemic and public health is everyone's priority. there has been some sport today — with over 68,000 people at cheltenham for the final day. and there was a popular winner in the gold cup, our reporter lizzie greenwood—hughes was there. he won it last year after a long time waiting and he has done it again, al boum photo has become the first horse since best mate since 2014 when successive gold cups. the most persistent shot —— present jumpers. he has had seven wins here in total before today and it was that early success that because the ides on al boum photo supplement. he went off at 100 to 30 as the favourites of a lot of people thought he was going to win. people pile on to trainers that they think

that they will do well... but it was not an easy race for him to win. santini nearly caught him on the line, and his jockey santini nearly caught him on the line, and hisjockey was santini nearly caught him on the line, and his jockey was lost in translation coming in third place. i spoke to willie after the race and the jockey and here's what they had to say. brilliant, he is brilliant horse... he has done a fantasticjob with them. a huge day. with the caller is on, and getting today, the tea m caller is on, and getting today, the team that goes in the work behind at the saints is incredible. a second magnets gold cup when in a row. a magnificent feet and a wonderful festival for them, all eyes turned to aintree and the grand national, will take place? he said he would send his horses there but whether

you get the chance to do that only time will tell. there's been a big shock in the super league — as salford produced a stunning fight back to beat the leaders wigan. salford were trailing 14—2 at one stage — but three second half tries, including this effort from kevin brown, sealed an 18—14 victory. leeds could have replaced wigan at the top tomorrow but their game against catalan has been postponed because of fears over the coronavirus. various events have been taking place today for sport relief — the main programme is over on bbc one right now. one of the events saw olympic hockey sam quek take 2020 penalties just outside the studio here at media city. starting at 9am — they finished over 12 hours later. sam quek won the challenge — scoring over 1400 penalties! i , more than the comedian would griffith. -- , more than the comedian would griffith. —— lloyd griffith. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more sport throughout the weekend.

thanks for watching. good night. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the mirror columnist, susie boniface and the deputy editor at the daily express, michael booker. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in with coronavirus continuing to dominate the headlines. it's game over says the mirror as british sport is hit by the global pandemic with all premier and english football league matches cancelled until april. the telegraph says borisjohnson

will follow suit and impose a ban on mass gatherings as early as next week. the times has more details of the government's emergency legislation with police set to be given new powers to detain people infected with coronavirus. more coronavirus in the guardian — the paper says care homes are banning family visits in an effort to protect in an effort to protect older residents. the daily mail leads with an admission from intensive care experts that treatment of the most vulnerable patients may be stopped if the spread of the virus escalates. the express says british scientists may be close to a breakthrough in developing a vaccine to treat the coronavirus. a flavour of the front pages. let's look at for them. susie take us to the times. please get paris to detain virus victims. a new set of emergency laws we can anticipate.“

the police suspect you are infected and appear unwilling to go to seek help of some sort they can have the power to detain you which i would have thought they would have the power considering the legislation a nyway power considering the legislation anyway and they have been granted the power, one of a number of emergency powers come through parliament in the next few weeks and what will be interesting is whether they have the sunset clause and that legislation which is that this lasts for as long until this point in time, either a future date or when a certain situation has ceased to exist. if there is not that sunset because then we should start worrying about living in italian priests say. but this is something thatis priests say. but this is something that is —— in a totalitarian —— totalitarian police state. this man and a biological warfare said, sunglasses and headphones is wearing as is his backpack which is a very bad pattern. keeping his sense of humour arrived. going on the tube intentionally to cause a stir, they

wa nt to intentionally to cause a stir, they want to be photographed because i have been on the two today and i don't come to london very often and i saw nobody wearing that and nobody making any effort not to touch faces or touch the hand rail on the escalators, not to touch handle source eat arms, i was carefully country bunk and put my hand in my coat. not touching anything. it's a fairly stark front page and it kind of follows on from the front pages we had this morning with boris johnson's press conference yesterday saying some of us will lose more wealth once. and it falls on in that way talking about these emergency laws. —— will way talking about these emergency laws. — — will lose way talking about these emergency laws. —— will lose more wealth to ones. i think people will be agreeable to these sort of laws. they do want to see that they are being protected. as you said, this will go on for as long as we're this crisis. most people i think will be supportive of these powers, the

government will be given the power to halt any vehicle, chain or aircraft as well. the government is in control and will be able to step in if there is wider problems. at the moment it is two days now, very serious, gloomy front pages. and i do me section here, in the worst—case air, the death management industry will be readily overwhelmed. we will not have body storage requirements. good gracious. measures seen by the times says that councils may go over sanders and ca re councils may go over sanders and care homes to address staff shortages because there was worry is that those during the carry might fall ill... they have to have a certain headcount, a certain number of heads and if they relax that... ca re of heads and if they relax that... care homes, everyone has a few years. when you see a sentence like that, you wonder how for willow

these standards will