If it takes at least seven years to train as an architect – and a minimum of 70 to negotiate the planning process, if you happen to be the poor so-and-so working on the new stadium project at the Recreation Ground in Bath – it takes only a few seconds to understand this much about the construction business: you don’t build anything from the top down.
So we can be forgiven for not shedding oceans of tears on behalf of the Australians and New Zealanders as they bleat about the ruinous exodus of players to Europe and, to a slightly lesser extent, Japan, where the governing class is said to be t...
