By JON NEWCOMBE
EXCLUSIVE
Homeless, a second child on the way and no job. That is the brutal reality confronting Gary Graham as one of the many professional rugby players feeling the effects of a shrinking Premiership.
Having turned down Newcastle’s reduced contract offer, Graham and his young family were set to leave Gateshead behind them and start a new life in the French medieval-hilltop town of Carcassonne this summer.
However, the deal was scrapped once Carcassonne were relegated at the beginning of May in the most agonising of circumstances.
While the basement battle with Soyaux-Ang...
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