NICK CAIN

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THE only conclusion that can be drawn from the cynical slashing of Championship funding by Bill Sweeney, is that instead of being the governing body of the whole game in England, the RFU have turned into a rotten borough.
It has become the supine vassal of the Premiership clubs, doing their bidding irrespective of the damage it does to the rest of the game.
Twickenham have even supplied the Premiership with their chairman, Ian Ritchie, who went straight from one vast pay packet as RFU chief executive to a new post with the club cartel.
Ritchi...