EXCLUSIVE
By NEALE HARVEY
FORMER England hooker Peter Wheeler is to become president of the Rugby Football Union in 2019, The Rugby Paper can reveal Wheeler, 68, is an unusual choice given he is no longer a serving member of the RFU Council.
However, Wheeler’s ‘bighitter’ status for what will be a World Cup year has earned the ex-Leicester chief executive the support of the RFU’s nominations panel, which will be ratified at the Council meeting this Friday.
Meanwhile, governance issues will be discussed at the meeting, with a £12.6m, three-year Sport England fun...