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No money secrets when Robert was around

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Captain: Will Carling

IN THE final years of amateurism, circa 1992, when the home unions took ever larger sums of sponsorship cash while refusing to allow the players a penny, the RFU announced the latest big deal at Twickenham.
The sponsor, wedged between England captain Will Carling and RFU secretary Dudley Wood, looked very pleased with himself, all the more so when the RFU steadfastly refused to reveal what the deal was worth.
Robert Armstrong of The Guardian led the protests of the Fourth Estate in the unmistakable sound of his native Belfas...

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