“Is the RFU fit for purpose?”
TWICKENHAM. It is a town in South-West London’s suburbia. If you were starting to plan an 82,000-capacity rugby stadium, it is one of the last places in England you would choose to site it. It is a bit late now as there is one already there, hopelessly hemmed in.
One of the funniest things I have ever heard was an RFU grandee proposing that Twickenham joined the lemming-like trend for Friday night kick-offs for Six Nations games. In other words, he wanted an area already choked to traffic death at rush hour on Fridays to add the traffic of 82,000 other people. Great planning. He was taken away by two men in white coats and umpires they were not.
Twickenham is the headquarters of the RFU, of course. They are a body recently augmented by a new chief executive, Bill Sweeney. He had two questions waiting on his desk on his first morning. First, is he going to bother much
