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 for club and country over the long stetch of a 17-year professional career, but he turned “class” into a moveable feast. His social circle tells us that much.
Joking aside, rugby followers the length and breadth of mainland Britain are hoping and praying that the age-old maxim – so elderly that it was fossilised before most of us were born – contains traces of truth. With the global gathering in France only a few months distant, what ...