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How coronavirus has left African football in financial bondage

Gor Mahia fans arrive at Kasarani Stadium ahead of their Kenyan Premier League match against AFC Leopards, in November, 2019. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Just four months into 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has swept across the planet, obliterating sports events and forcing suspensions, postponements and outright cancellations.

A sporting calendar that promised so much - including the Olympics, Africa Women’s Cup of Nations, European Championships, African Athletics championship, the CHAN tournament - has instead become a series of blank weeks and months as event after event succumbed to postponements and cancellations.

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