THE decision by Eddie Jones to follow Bill Sweeney and the rest of the RFU’s top tier executives in taking a 25 per cent pay cut to his estimated £750,000 annual salary is welcome news.
However, while the England head coach, and the RFU, are making an appropriate gesture to share some of the financial pain unleashed since the coronavirus epidemic led to a sporting lockdown, we should not lose sight of the astronomic salaries being paid by English Rugby Union’s governing body.
What it shows is how far the culture of fat-cat pay packets has taken root in our sport durin...