TWITTER was in full spate this week when Nigel Wray stepped down as chairman of Saracens, with the more excitable tweeters insisting he and Saracens had cost players jobs, wages, caps and god knows what else by their breach of the salary camp.
On the contrary, I doubt if we would even have a vibrant 12-team Premiership, employing about 1,000 players and staff if it hadn’t been for the vision of Wray and his commercial man in the early days, the late Peter Deakin.
Professional club rugby in this country made a hideous start with ‘here today gone tomorrow’ John Hall’s ...