Brendan Gallagher takes a look at how club rugby has spread around the world since 2011

Globalisation is one of the modern day buzzwords and although sometimes I’m not exactly sure what it means the fact that next Saturday Newcastle Falcons will be playing their ‘home’ Premiership game against Saracens in the Philadelphia suggests that in rugby terms something is afoot.
On the very same day the European champions will be running out at the Talen Energy Stadium in Chester, a satellite city of Philadelphia on the banks of the Delaware river, the Southern Kings will be playin...