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Nick Cain: This farce could rip the game to pieces

The longest-running farce in sport is the administration of club rugby union in England, with the RFU and the Prem club owners supplying a plantation’s worth of banana skins to keep the game in a perpetual state of tangled contortions.
Matas Jurevicius on the charge for Ealing who are flying at the top of the Champ with ten wins from ten this season

The longest-running farce in sport is the administration of club rugby union in England, with the RFU and the Prem club owners supplying a plantation’s worth of banana skins to keep the game in a perpetual state of tangled contortions.

The latest manifestation of this administrative disaster by those entrusted with the welfare of the club game in England is the continuing state of limbo and acrimony surrounding promotion-relegation, and the divisive attempts to introduce a franchise Premiership.
It has led to a sense of the dismemberment of what used to be a cooperative body of clubs under ...

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