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There could not have been a bigger catalyst for change at Twickenham than Bill Sweeney’s abject announcement last Friday that he had enlisted help from the DCMS in the form of two so-called independent advisers.
In the process of this plaintive call for Government assistance “with plans for the future of rugby union”, the RFU chief executive not only trashed 152 years of the RFU being self-governing, but also tacitly admitted he was not capable of fulfilling his own job description.
If Sweeney had been truly safeguarding the well-being of Engl...