Barkley cleared over England tickets

The English Rugby Football Union today exonerated England fly-half Olly Barkley of any wrongdoing after his ticket allocation for an RBS 6 Nations match was alleged to have fallen into the wrong hands.

Barkley was given a deadline of this week to explain how part of his ticket allocation for the championship clash with Ireland came into the possession of unlicensed companies offering unofficial hospitality packages at Twickenham.