OLIVER HOLT: It is selfish and spoiled to squabble over relegation as thousands lose their lives... how can they act as if this is more important than people's suffering?

Before the coronavirus hit, my previous experience of lockdown only lasted a couple of days.

It was seven months ago during the Rugby World Cup in Japan and as Super Typhoon Hagibis approached Tokyo, everyone was told to stay indoors.

For those of us in modern hotels, it was no great hardship, although buildings swayed in the violent storm like liners on an ocean swell.

Several matches fell victim to the natural disaster that October. Italy's match with New Zealand was cancelled. England's pool match against France was lost, too.