CHRIS HEWETT

UNINTENDED consequences? You can’t move for them in the Union game, whether the governing class is ring-fencing the Premiership or fiddling around with tackle heights.
And while such fallouts are often negative, it can cut both ways – as the embattled suits at the top end of the European Professional Club Rugby operation have just discovered over there in their tax-efficient corner of Switzerland.
After years of manipulating what used to be known as the Heineken Cup to protect the powerful from the powerful – seedings, rankings and all the rest of it – the fixture chaos ...