Cockerill again seeking to rearrange rugby landscape

Richard Cockerill found out a long time ago that when one door opened another was always liable to smash him in the face.

Cockerill again seeking to rearrange rugby landscape

Richard Cockerill found out a long time ago that when one door opened another was always liable to smash him in the face.

His one and only international try at Twickenham, against Ireland at the end of the Five Nations in 1998, brought England’s abrasive hooker a rebuke from one of the RFU’s 57 ‘old farts’ for the heinous crime of booting the ball into the crowd in jubilation.

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