Richards tight-lipped after three-year ban

Dean Richards has refused to reveal whether there was a systematic attempt to fake blood injuries at Harlequins despite his three-year ban for doing it on five separate occasions.

Richards’ coaching career was in tatters last night after the 46-year-old admitted his part in the ’Bloodgate’ scandal at an ERC independent appeals committee, which lasted almost 14 hours at Glasgow’s Radisson Hotel.