RUGBY MATTERS

BRENDAN GALLAGHER
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points

The question “What if ?” has been described as the two most useless words in the English language but the prospect of what might have been continues to fascinate in life and sport and I stumbled across an intriguing and tragic rugby example this week.
I was researching Arturo Rodriguez Jurado, the first big name in Argentinian rugby in the 1920s and 1930s when he was the Pumas captain and comfortably their best player. He switched between centre and flanker but wherever he played he wa...