The Breakdown | Then and now: rising through crisis will always be England’s rugby ritual | Sport
England faced Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in successive weeks in the knockout stages of last year’s World Cup....
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The Breakdown | Players must have the final say on when it is safe to resume | Sport
What comes first, your job or your health? It is a question many are asking as lockdown restrictions gradually start...
The Breakdown | Premiership rugby needs financial fair play now more than ever | Sport
Paul Myners well knows the devastation a financial crisis can cause. He was the finances services secretary to the Treasury...
The Breakdown | From Aaron Cruden to Ma’a Nonu: are big-money rugby signings worth it? | Sport
“We hoped for something else.” The words spoken by the Montpellier owner, Mohed Altrad, after he had released the New...
The Breakdown | Bill Beaumont re-election risks global rift, but where would the south go? | Sport
Bill Beaumont’s re-election as World Rugby’s chairman was not an end but a new beginning. The former England captain faced...
The Breakdown | ‘Now or never’ for game to reboot, warns former World Rugby director | Sport
There is a line in The Plague, the novel by Albert Camus now enjoying a revival, that still chimes. “Officialdom...
The Breakdown | Protests, politics and a bus hijack: the rugby tour that gave Mandela hope | Sport
The tour that changed international sport ended 50 years ago. South Africa, No 1 in the world now and vying...
The Breakdown | Rugby needs to re-engage with supporters it has taken for granted | Sport
Bill Shankly once remarked: “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with...
The Breakdown | Shutdown gives rugby union an unmissable opportunity to reset | Sport
Realism in rugby has gone viral in the last month. English club owners from Bristol’s Steve Lansdown to London Irish’s...
The Breakdown | Rugby in Wales has survived mass shutdown before and will again | Sport
Sport has shut down all over the world as countries look to contain the spread of coronavirus. There was an...
