Marquee players are licence to bend cap

CHRIS HEWETT

LEAVING aside Chris Whitty’s festive slideshows – ho ho ho – is there anything less amusing on the planet than the Premiership’s freestyle wrestling bout with its own salary cap rules?
Especially now there is no relegation from the elite league. What happens to Leicester if they turn out to be bang to rights on making dodgy image rights payments back in the day? Er… next question please.
The cap was, and remains, the best way forward for a sport in which leading players – and coaches, and chief execs, and chairmen – earn far more than the current business model can conceiv...

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