Let the pros run our game? That would just be lunacy

JEFF PROBYN

Grerat man: Brian Habana of the Barbarians is greeted by Micky Steele-Bodger after playing New Zealand at Twickenham in 2009
PICTURE: Getty Images

■It is with great sadness that I write these lines as earlier this week we lost one, if not the, greatest rugby man to have lived, Micky Steele-Bodger at the age of 93.
President of the Barbarians is how most will know and remember him but he was much more than that and had held every position of authority within the world game.
An astute man who knew and understood the politics of the game and the players that played it over...

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