NICH CAIN

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HOW is it that the RFU, which has had the enviable reputation almost since its inception of being the wealthiest union in the world game, has gone cap-in-hand to the British government begging for a bail-out?
According to Bill Sweeney, the RFU’s under-siege chief executive, who has responsibility for the wellbeing of the sport in England, it must have state support, because it is in danger of being wrecked on the Covid rocks.
After being told by government that the game could be without supporters coming through the turnstiles for a fur...