CHRIS HEWETT England’s campaign at the home World Cup in 2015 was a big enough joke in itself, but that didn’t stop the smart-arses rolling […]

Poor old World Rugby, the non-governing governing body, has taken a fair old hammering in recent days and weeks. The problem this time? The same […]

CHRIS HEWETT Precisely none of the owner-investors who finance professional club rugby in England are in obvious need of a tin of beans from the […]

CHRIS HEWETT Top tip for rugby league players looking to make a name for themselves on the far side of the great schism: wait until […]

CHRIS HEWETT The trouble with the refereeing profession? Ninety-eight per cent of its members give the rest a bad name. Okay, okay: it’s an old […]

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST The story goes like this: Richard Hill, the best England player no one ever talked about and significantly more influential than […]

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST There have been bigger crowds on the summit ridge of Mount Everest than we usually see at Sale, even on an […]

CHRIS HEWETT Warren Gatland was an All Black hooker plenty of times over, but he never won a Test cap because Sean Fitzpatrick, his great […]

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It is a fact well known to all of us: try as we might, we can’t fix stupid. Which brings us […]

CHRIS HEWETT It seems there are two ways of ending up in Japan unexpectedly. The first involves taking a flight from Manchester to Sydney, missing […]

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Act in haste, repent at leisure. We’ve all heard the line a thousand times, but you can’t get enough of a […]

Missing it yet? You must be: the anti-woke warriors tell us you are, so no further proof is required. When it comes to match day […]

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST As a rule of thumb, rugby folk do not pick an intellectual fight with the great New Zealand coach Wayne Smith […]

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It stank to high heaven at the time, as sins against sporting justice always do, and the odour lingers in the […]

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Rising high: Saints win lineout ball against Leicester PICTURES: Getty Images Stop the clock, now and for always, amen. We’re talking […]

CHRIS HEWETT Four rounds of knockout rugby and 109 days early, there it was: the longlist for the European Professional Club Rugby player of the […]

CHRIS HEWETT Bernard Laporte, Wasps and Worcester, the online victimisation of Wayne Barnes, the financial trials of the English Premiership, the impoverishment of the European […]

CHRIS HEWETT Form is temporary, class is permanent”. Who says? Not Mike Tindall. The World Cup-winning centre’s form may have been a rock-solid fixed point […]

CHRIS HEWETT Reflecting on the rugby life and times of dear Doddie Weir in last week’s paper, Brendan Gallagher made reference to his arrival at […]

Saracens coach Joe Shaw back in his playing days at Newcastle in 2003 CHRIS HEWETT English club rugby at the top end is unusual in […]