CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST

The former England captain Phil de Glanville will continue as “Senior Professional Game Board Representative”, according to the latest pronouncement from the Rugby Football Union – acommunication of such gravity, it makes the average Papal Bull read like a Latin version of “Barnacle Bill the Sailor”. If the governing body took itself any more seriously, it would join NATO.
Those of us sufficiently grey-bearded to cast our minds back to 1993 will recall that Phil, playing for the South-West against the touring New Zealanders in an eye-wateringly ferocious matc...