Bill Sweeney, the Rugby Football Union chief executive, received a ÂŁ16,000 pay rise for the 2022-23 financial year â a season in which three Premiership clubs went to the wall and the governing body faced a revolt over the community gameâs tackle height.
It is nearly three years to the day that the law firm Rylands Garth announced that it was going to launch a concussion lawsuit on behalf of dozens of former players against rugbyâs authorities. Sitting in Court 75 in some far away nook of the Royal Courts of Justice off the Strand on Friday morning and the ancient Chinese proverb of the wheels of justice turning slowly never rang truer.
Legal claims are being made against World Rugby, the Rugby Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union.