RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

THIS column has long argued there should be more acknowledgement of Eric Liddell, the rugby player, to sit alongside the world-famous Olympic athlete who wouldn’t run on Sundays but ended up nonetheless winning the Olympic 400m title at the 1924 Olympics in Paris.
So a hat tip to the SRU who welcomed the New Year by inaugurating Liddell in their Hall of Fame, January 2 being the 100th anniversary of Liddell's Scotland rugby debut. In their citation the SRU rightly emphasised his sporting ethos generally ...