CHRIS HEWETT

The two organisations at the heart of what is left of the professional club structure in England – the Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby – are being summoned to Westminster for a discussion with the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee at some point in the near future. This news begs a number of questions.
First among them is this: will we be treated to the spectacle of the country’s most influential rugger power-brokers explaining themselves – and, in a perfect world, bending their knees and apologising - to a bunch of MPs for the myriad errors of their ways, ...