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IN TRP April 14, Jeff Probyn highlights a shocking example of how Premiership clubs bend the rules to suit themselves.
He quotes the RFU’s Nigel Melville as saying that Leicester players could still be chosen for England – even if that club was relegated.
As Jeff writes, that would directly contradict what has happened to every other relegated club since rugby went professional. It would fly in the face of the absurd rule decreeing that England internati...