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NICK CAIN

BRACE yourselves for the Premiership Cup, a tournament which reflects the desperate lack of vision at the top of the English game. That criticism applies to the club owners as much as it does to their admin arm, the PRL – and it also applies to the RFU, and the pro game’s talking shop, the PGB, for failing to safeguard the interests of the Championship clubs.
The Premiership Cup is a closed-shop tournament, which features only the 12 clubs in the top league. Instead of using the opportunity presented by the demise of the moribund An...