Rugby residency ruins the game

Towards the end of last season, Johnny McNicholl asked himself a rhetorical question: “Am I Welsh? It’s a tough question to answer. I don’t know.”

Well, the Scarlet Kiwi appears to know now. As soon as the World Cup is consigned to history, he will become one of the last under the old rules to travel halfway around the planet in search of a national identity, perhaps the very last.