Baron rejects Woodward’s calls for his resignation

TWICKENHAM supremo Francis Baron has rejected calls from Clive Woodward to step aside as Rugby Football Union chief executive.

Woodward fired a broadside at Baron and RFU elite rugby director Rob Andrew, blaming them for the state of English rugby, which includes the national team winning just one of their last nine Test matches.

But Baron was in no mood for a verbal scrap, preferring instead to recall “five great years” working with Woodward, which included England’s 2003 World Cup triumph.