Masterly: Steve Bale

MORE often than not, guests on this paper’s weekly podcast are subjected to a quickfire round of 15 personal questions, the last of which asks them to identify “the best thing about working in rugby”. They tend to respond with one voice, like a choir. “Easy,” they say. “It’s the people you meet.”
I take the same view for the best possible reason. Through this wonderful sport of ours, I met Steve Bale, my predecessor as rugby correspondent of The Independent and, in his quiet way, the most masterly chronicl...