Concussion in rugby: 'You could be talking about someone retiring with hundreds, thousands of these sub-concussive blows to the head'

Richard Boardman is a lawyer involved in the case taken by several players against World Rugby, the RFU, and the WRU

Steve Thompson: No memory of winning the World Cup in 2003.

Concussion has rarely been as topical in rugby, given this week’s controversy involving Jonathan Sexton and his former doctor in France.

Dr Jean-Francois Chermann’s extraordinary commentary on Sexton, for which he has since apologised, raises all sorts of ethical questions about patient confidentiality, some of them posed by the Irish player himself.