NICK CAIN
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TOM Ilube’s first Press conference as RFU board chairman was carefully scripted, and the reference to his kidnapping ordeal by security men as a child in Uganda during Idi Amin’s era sounds harrowing and elicits public sympathy.
However, it does not have any bearing on Ilube’s immediate role as the key figure in the running of Rugby Union in England. What was most glaringly missing in a limited-edition interview with the RFU’s first black chairman by a handful of journalists was the absence of any details, or pla...