NICK CAIN
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Nothing holds a mirror up to all that is wrong with the elite end of English rugby more than the death of Wasps as a professional club.
That the last and cruellest cut came from the RFU, which withdrew its offer to Wasps of a place in the Championship on Thursday, was a sure sign of the ineptitude of the governing body, and its inability to put in place the regulatory standards that is one of the main reasons for its existence.
The RFU’s abnegation of its responsibility for the wellbeing and running of the professional end of our sport is writ...