{"id":1405,"date":"2020-06-01T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T08:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newbettingsites.co\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2020-06-01T08:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T08:52:18","slug":"british-sport-slowly-resuming-after-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newbettingsites.co\/british-sport-slowly-resuming-after-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"British Sport Slowly Resuming"},"content":{"rendered":"
The first race meeting of the week will take place at Newcastle today, as British horse racing attempts to get back in the saddle under new social distancing guidelines.<\/p>\n
This will be welcome news for betting enthusiasts who have been traversing a pretty barren landscape for the last few months, and they will soon be able to add UK football too.<\/p>\n
In Germany, the Bundesliga was the first major league to resume after the global outbreak of Coronavirus – a lifeline to bookies who had been promoting Esports like their lives depended on it – but the return of UK based events will be much more appealing for bettors.<\/p>\n
It was 9th March when the last Premier League game occurred, Leicester vs Aston Villa if you’re interested, and the same can be said for the Championship; but it took a few more days for Leagues 1 and 2 to pull down the shutters, and the National League continued until the 14th before ending their season.<\/p>\n
Horse Racing fought on a little longer, finally conceding on March 18th and putting a stop to all races, but not before the popular Cheltenham Festival had gone ahead drawing in big crowds and even bigger levels of criticism.<\/p>\n
Of course all other sports were affected too, with all professional tennis banned from 12th March and most basketball including the NBA put on hold until further notice on the same date.<\/p>\n
In the days that followed sporting events around the world folded in huge numbers until there was barely anything left.<\/p>\n
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But that was then and this is now!<\/p>\n
British Horse Racing is back at the bookies from today (albeit only online, bookmakers cannot open their shops until 15th June),\u00a0 with ten races going ahead at Newcastle.<\/p>\n