New British League is ‘coming in two years’

■By PETER JACKSON
A BRITISH League featuring the long overdue revival of Anglo-Welsh competition will be ‘up and running in two years’, according to a leading club.
The prediction comes with the PRO14 finalising negotiations for the sale of a 27 per cent share worth £120m to CVC Capital Partners, the private equity firm whose £500m offer for the commercial rights of the Six Nations is under consideration.
The former owners of Formula One and Moto GP have completed a similar deal with the Gallagher Premiership for £275m understood to be worth £13.5m ...

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