NEWS that Premiership clubs have now completed a £220m deal with the private equity firm CVC represents the biggest con job in English rugby history.
Jeff Probyn wrote recently in TRP that such a deal should immediately see RFU funding removed from those clubs, subject to existing contracts. He was right.
The RFU’s 2016 eightyear deal gives Premiership clubs £220m for the release of players to the England team – money which comes from the English game as a whole. For Premiership clubs now to be receiving a similar-sized windfall, with none of it being shared among th...