If there has been an unusual amount of activity in one corner of the commodities market over recent days, blame Twickenham, where the governing classes at the Rugby Football Union have been buying up all the tin hats they can find in a desperate effort to cover their tin ears.
God knows, the union game in England is no stranger to coverage in the business pages of the public prints, as well as the sports sections.
Money – the pursuit of it, the splashing of it, the wasting of it and, most frequently of all, the shortage of it – has accounted for as many column inches as Jonny Wilkinson’s phi...