Todd checked over in hospital

Gloucester centre Robert Todd has been taken to hospital in England after collapsing twice in France.

The 31-year-old played the full 80 minutes against Perpignan in Gloucester’s Heineken Cup 31-23 defeat on Saturday and took part in a light training session before departure yesterday.

But Gloucester director of rugby Nigel Melville said Todd fainted twice during the session.

He was given oxygen and on the team’s arrival at Birmingham airport he was taken off on a stretcher and admitted to Solihull Hospital with a suspected viral infection.