MEANWHILE IN…
Apr 29, 2020
4 minutes
1“DOES MY HARE LOOK ALL RIGHT?”
The Belarusian Premier League was the only European division to continue into April – and didn’t just let fans in to see games. Giant rabbits got in, too.
Rather than shutting the country down, president Alexander Lukashenko countered that citizens could ward off coronavirus by drinking vodka, also declaring that ‘tractors will cure everyone’. He described sport as ‘the best anti-virus remedy’, so football ploughed on – bringing the bonus of overseas television deals from countries eager to screen live football... any football.
The Belarusian Premier League delivers such delights as FK Minsk vs Dinamo Minsk (El Minskico for short), plus Dynamo
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