Rugby has a new law – as if the game needed another one – and the way things are going, it will soon carry the authority of an Eleventh Commandment:
“If Thou Makest A Mistake Live On Television, Thou Shalt Be Ritually Slaughtered On Twitter.”
The outpouring of bile on social media is no longer an occasional outrage. As Liam Williams, the excellent Wales full-back, discovered in the immediate aftermath of his country’s Six Nations defeat in Paris last weekend, it has become an inevitability.
Ten times out of nine and as night follows day, any error perpetrated on the international stage – ...