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Sancho and Borussia Dortmund team-mate Akanji fined by Bundesliga for breaking coronavirus lockdown to get a haircut

The German football league (DFL) has fined Borussia Dortmund players Jadon Sancho and Manuel Akanji for breaking coronavirus social distancing rules after pictures emerged on social media of the footballers getting a haircut.

Pictures circulated earlier this week of the players seeing a barber without face masks, breaking the strict anti-coronavirus measures which are still in place in Germany.

Four other Borussia Dortmund players, who allegedly broke the rules in the same way, have not been punished due to a lack of evidence, as no photographs of them getting haircuts were published online.