Martin Bayfield: Six Nations should continue to air on free-to-air TV, but reporting needs to improve

Martin Bayfield believes the Six Nations would be best served with one dedicated terrestrial broadcaster: the Telegraph’s Geoff Pugh Instead of patrolling the pitch with microphone in hand, Martin Bayfield enjoyed this year’s Guinness Six Nations Championship as a punter and not an announcer for the first time in more than a decade. The former … Read more

England almost joined rugby league in 1995

Kerry Packer wanted to revolutionize rugby union in 1995, in the same way he had transformed cricket in 1977 It has been locked away in a vault for almost thirty years, but the original player contract from the ‘World Rugby Corporation’, the Kerry Packer-backed £200m rebel rugby circus that threatened to create a breakaway global … Read more