A mess that needs quick sorting

THE more I read the protestations of the Anglo-French protagonists from Premier Rugby Limited (PRL) and the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the more my blood boils.

Of course they have a right to express their views on the accepted shortcomings that exist with the Heineken Cup, but my annoyance centres around the way they go about doing it.

The impasse in Europe is not only due to the English clubs seeking structural, financial and qualification changes to the current format — against which they have legitimate grievances — it’s about power and more specifically wrestling that power from the Dublin-based ERC, an organisation they are dead set on dismantling.