One rule for rugby’s elite, another for the paupers

Outrage fits us like a spring jacket and is as easily slipped on as off.

One rule for rugby’s elite, another for the paupers

How noisily we harrumphed last week when the Premier League chairman let slip a lifetime of suppressed annoyance that the reins of football were tugged from England’s grasp. Remember how we huffed until old interests gave the cricketers we’d just discovered a shot at the 2015 World Cup.

And then, with nary a trace of irony in our bearing, we settle as usual into the luxurious comforts of the cosiest cartel of all; the Six Nations Championship.

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