



Right, that’s that, then. Definitely no elite football in Britain for a fortnight (and nobody believes it will only be a two-week break).



The speed with which all of this has hit us feels unprecedented. Historians will no doubt be able to find examples from the past but right now that perspective is beyond most of us — it is certainly beyond the club bosses and football leaders The Athletic has spoken to over the last week, for them these are the “interesting times” of the apocryphal Chinese curse and nobody wants to be living through them.



Earlier this week we published a question-and-answer piece on the coronavirus outbreak that was considerably more question than answer. The good news is the number of answers has grown. The bad news is so have the questions.



So here is an attempt to summarise the things we know we know, outline the things we know we do not know and explore some of the things we don’t know we...