By PETER JACKSON
THE Six Nations failure to act against Wales over the Tomas Francis affair has been condemned by two medical experts as “an absolute disgrace”.
Despite a review panel ruling that the concussed prop “should have been immediately and permanently removed from play” at Twickenham last month, the Six Nations have declared the matter closed.
“It’s an absolute disgrace,’’ Professor John Fairclough, a leader in the field of traumatic sports injury, told TRP. “We are surprised and dismayed that they seem to have trivialised a very serious matter by saying: ‘We don’t need to go ...
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