Premiership

Difficult aftermath of that Ritchie Prem deal

by
The Rugby Paper Team
2 December 2018

All smiles: Ian Ritchie with RFU president Jason Leonard and the World Cup in 2015

IAN Ritchie must be looking on at the financial ructions at Twickenham with dismay, given that it is only 18 months since he stepped down as the RFU’s chief executive.
That consternation will also, no doubt, centre on the part Ritchie played in the negotiation of the whopping £220m Professional Game Agreement (PGA) with the Premiership clubs in 2016 that has played a significant part in the £30.9m operating loss announced this week by the RFU.
Incredibly, this agreement almost trebled the...

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