Rugby's Friday night lights divide opinion

Friday night games are the sort of thing that happens when sport seeks out the corporate dollar, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Rugby's Friday night lights divide opinion

It may be a shortened week for Ireland as they face up to a first Friday night Six Nations fixture, at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, this evening. But, with close to two weeks elapsed since the last round of games and little new to talk about in the interim, it feels as though we have all been banging on about this fairly minor curiosity for forever and a day.

To be fair, it beats wasting our breath on a roof that we now know will stay closed. No-one will bother with the architecture post-game, not when the consequences that come with an 8.05pm start time in a teeming, alcohol-soaked city with a public transport system that stretches to breaking point on a normal match day dawns on everybody..

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