FIFA's competition was meant to be played in a new, expanded format between mid-June and the start of July of next summer, with 24 teams from six confederations taking part.

West Ham forward Michail Antonio committed the ultimate Hammers sin by wearing a Tottenham Hotspur shirt after losing to defender Ryan Sessegnon on FIFA 20 last week. 

MIKE KEEGAN: The global game's governing body has recognised the current coronavirus crisis as a 'force majeure' - an unforeseen circumstance that prevents a contract from being fulfilled.

Antonio is primed to face one of the club's young fans as a game against the winger is the prize in their newly-launched Young Hammers at Home initiative to help those at home due to COVID-19.

The Chelsea star was the first Premier League player known to have contracted the illness and has now fully recovered. The 19-year-old has been self-isolating since the season was suspended.

If some leagues continue well into the year then FIFA are considering a flexible approach to transfers to allow teams to buy and sell players at different times and ease their financial woes.

David Beckham, Harry Kane and Harry Maguire are part of a FIFA campaign showing appreciation for healthcare workers around the world leading the fight against coronavirus.

Brazil's Ronaldo won FIFA's World Player of the Year three times before the age of 21 but was eventually surpassed by his Portuguese namesake.

The game's world governing body said each of its 211 member countries would receive £404,000 in the coming days plus any entitlement under the Forward 2.0 development programme.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: For Rex Hunt, Thursday, April 1, 1982 began like any other day. It was a lovely, bright morning, but in his sprawling Victorian house in the little town of Stanley, Falkland Islands.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: A few years earlier, many professions had been virtually all-male. In the City, women were not allowed on the floor of the Stock Exchange until March 1973.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: 'To some extent,' wrote Boris Johnson in his book about his hero Winston Churchill, 'all politicians are gamblers with events.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: We are only a few days into the election campaign and the conspiracy theories have already begun.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The real threat to free speech comes not from a totalitarian government. It comes from UK university campuses that are supposed to be hotbeds of debate and disagreement.

Like Johnson, Churchill refined his image, endlessly practising his supposedly spontaneous quips. He, too, had conspicuous flaws, drank too much, told tall tales and played to the gallery.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: In my lifetime, Labour have published more than a dozen manifestos, some saner than others.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Exactly 100 days since Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister, his Momentum fan club have sent red roses to mark the occasion.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: To future generations, the names of toppled Labour strongholds will tell the story of Boris Johnson's tidal wave.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The 2010s has been a decade of increasingly strident and intolerant political correctness, with institutions such as the Church of England taking more extreme positions.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: So how will we remember the 2010s? It was a decade of austerity, great patriotic spectacles, royal weddings and the triumphant London Olympics.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Britain's departure shows the EU is not the end of history and it is perfectly possible to get off the train, however clumsy our departure may have looked.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: We've packed our bags and bought our tickets, and on Friday evening we are off. Whatever you think of the decision, there is no doubt this is a landmark in our modern history.

DOMINIC SANDBROOKE: This week, as Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan launches a 'consultation' to discuss the licence fee, the BBC's future genuinely seems more uncertain than ever before.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The new slimmed down Royal Family is a good thing, though I don't for a moment underestimate the strain it has placed upon our 93-year-old Queen.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: We pride ourselves on our supremacy over the natural world and our mastery of science. But as the last week has shown, our modernity has made us weaker than ever.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Boris Johnson's reference to 'society' in Sunday night's video was a rebuke to Margaret Thatcher's controversial remarks, made in an interview in the late Eighties.

With all this free time we have on our hands, Dominic Sandbrook makes the case for reading non-fiction books. Pictured: A Soviet soldier stand on top of a tank in Moscow's red square.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Even optimists admit that some businesses will not be replaced. Not every neighbourhood restaurant will reopen. Not every furloughed worker will stroll back into a job.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Have you ever wondered what a perfect storm looks like? Just take a look at Britain's universities. Crippled by corruption and greed they stand on the brink of disaster.

Queensland long distance runner Tim Franklin set up a 21 metre circuit in his Brisbane apartment and ran an entire marathon inside.

Queenslander Karla Lake contracted the deadly virus while celebrating her 75th birthday with her husband Graeme on the virus-stricken Ruby Cruise cruise ship before it docked in Sydney.

Residents in two adjacent apartment buildings in Redcliffe, north of Brisbane, simultaneously cheered for all medical services staff around the country.

Rebecca Lobie's revealing photos have seen her rack up over 100,000 followers on Instagram.

The 222 Australian citizens and 28 New Zealand nationals and permanent residents are scheduled to arrive in Brisbane on Thursday.

Sarah Greig and her two sons returned from a trip to Jakarta on Sunday, and were immediately shuttled to the Novotel hotel in Brisbane.

From their Gold Coast homes, national co-founders of the group, Julian Corvin and Tara O'Kane, are connecting people in need with those offering to do grocery shopping.

Australian restaurant Salt Meats Cheese is now delivering their one kilogram of brie cheese pasta to customers at home in isolation. The meal is priced at $39 and serves two people.

Emergency services were called to Sunnybank Hills in outer Brisbane about 9pm on Monday following reports a man was pouring fuel over himself and a house.

Emergency services rushed to a home in Sunnybank Hills, in Brisbane's south on Monday night, after receiving reports of a domestic violence incident.

WARNING: Graphic footage has emerged of the horrifying moment a man was shot dead by police after he allegedly doused himself in fuel in a McDonald's car park south of Brisbane.

Organisers of the Northey Street Organic Farmers Market in Brisbane were furious when police infiltrated the market in the car rather than on foot on Sunday.

Queensland couple Sam Henningsen and Julie Guillet say they were forced to move apartments after a rental dispute with their landlord ended with them having to barricade their doors.

Families from the Early Birds Jimboomba Education and Childcare, south of Brisbane have been informed after the patient attended the centre unaware they had the virus.

Darling Downs Zoo, south-west of Brisbane in Queensland, is closed temporarily due to the pandemic.

Toni 'Tones and I' Watson shot to fame with the catchy hit Dance Monkey, which has topped the charts in more than 30 countries.

Creative Australians are adorning costumes to take out the bins as a form of entertainment during the coronavirus pandemic.

Brisbane Dr Evan Jones said staff in high risk working environments should be tested immediately to prevent another spike in COVID-19 cases.

Married At First Sight star Mishel Karen has clapped back at trolls after she  inundated with hateful messages when she posted her visit to a hair salon for a colour and cut on Instagram, this week.

Jamie Douglas Saxon was found guilty of murder in October after he stabbed Dominik Schulze, 30, during a Brisbane road-rage incident two years earlier.

James 'Mantra' Schultz was caught driving on a demerit point suspended license at Mansfield, in Brisbane's south, on March 24.