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How football managed to still finish by mid-May during the last major natural disaster

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The outbreak of the coronavirus is bringing once-in-a-generation levels of chaos to the sporting calendar, the likes of which haven't been seen since the Big Freeze of 1963.

If the Premier League resumes on April 4 - as it’s scheduled to at the time of writing - then Manchester City and United will have gone 27 days without a game.

That’s an extraordinary amount of time off during a season in the modern era. However, it’s only a fraction of the amount of time that has passed between games in the past.

The record for the longest time a top flight club has gone between league games stands at a massive 70 days, and City are the joint record holders.

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