By PETER JACKSON

Wales kick the Six Nations off on Saturday with their employers ‘shellshocked’ by explosive public anger over the sexism scandal engulfing the chief executive Steve Phillips.
Ken Owens’ rank outsiders must finalise plans aimed at knocking Ireland off their global pedestal against an unprecedented backdrop of a WRU hierarchy besieged by broadsides from all angles, including one from the players via their trade union.
“This is probably the worst crisis the Union has ever had to deal with and they’ve had a few over the decades,’’ a source close to the WRU told The Rugby Pape...