IT’S high time for lashings of unambiguous praise for the professional rugby players of this Covid-infected land and in particular how they have risen above the depressing sight and sound of empty echoing stadia to play with a splendid intensity, passion and panache.
In recent weeks I have watched Wasps come back from the dead at Bath, Sale stir themselves mightily in the second half to overcome Quins in the Premiership Cup final and on Tuesday night Bath produced a final quarter of staggering intensity and deadly precision to banish Gloucester.
The physicality has been off the scale ...