RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

THE second series of BBC’s SAS Rogue Heroes is well underway with its controversial depiction of Blair “Paddy” Mayne who has switched from North Africa and is now causing absolute mayhem freeing Sicily and mainland Italy with his merry band of specially selected troops.
Many feel the series massively overplays the hard-drinking, hotel wrecking, demonic poet-reciting roaring broth of an Irish boy persona that is being attributed to Mayne – although nobody ever claimed...