Chasing the Dollar

MONEY MAKES the world go round, and if this wasn’t true of rugby before the game went professional in 1995, it certainly is now.

While the rugby public in Europe have been absorbed by a Six Nations Championship in which Wales have been going for a third Grand Slam under Warren Gatland, the rugby headlines have more often been about cash than crash-balls.

Almost no nation in the tournament was left unaffected by off-field considerations. As England and Wales battled it out for the title, for example, multiple rammies about finances meant that the tectonic plates were shifting under the feet of the top players