RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

A weekly look at the game’s other talking points

Twenty years on from England’s World Cup triumph – Wednesday is the anniversary – it is perhaps legitimate to look at what was happening domestically in the Premiership back in 2003 or the season that had just ended. This is after all the milieu that produced the only northern hemisphere winner of the World Cup in its 10 editions. Just one club, Bristol, was not represented in England’s World Cup squad.
We know that Sir Clive Woodward and his coaching team had got England training and playing in an uber prof...