Lady Godiva’s dress-down ride through Coventry; Sir Thomas Fairfax’s rout of the Royalist forces south of Bristol; the first stirrings of the Battle of Britain; the attack on the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland: all things considered, the 10th day of July had more than its share of historical resonance even before Darren Childs addressed the rugby nation.
For month after pandemic- blighted month - 109 days according to The Sun newspaper, which was keeping count - the Premiership Rugby chief executive’s approach to public relations was marginally less proactive than Lord Luca...