NICK CAIN
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Bill Sweeney will be looking over his shoulder as the Six Nations gets underway, and with good reason. In a week in which leading administrators like French Federation’s once all-powerful president, Bernard Laporte, and the Welsh Rugby Union’s chief executive, Steve Phillips, were bowled over like skittles, moves are afoot in English community rugby to topple Sweeney as RFU chief executive.
The rank standards that now apply in international rugby administration in too many leading nations saw Laporte forced into resigning after being convicte...