Players claim rugby authorities failed them

PROCEEDINGS: Legal proceedings have been issued on behalf of 55 grassroots rugby union players. File pic: Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile

Legal proceedings have been issued on behalf of 55 grassroots rugby union players who claim the game's authorities failed to sufficiently protect them from brain injury, law firm Rylands has said.

According to Rylands, all the claimants are suffering from neurological impairments and contend that World Rugby, the Rugby Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union have been negligent, in that they failed to protect them from concussive and sub-concussive impacts during their careers.