‘Just throw a match on it and you’ll have a raging fire’: Why US investors are pouring money into Prem Rugby clubs – and the plan to take on France with ‘the value of ignorance’, scrap ‘sacred cows’ and make Cornish Pirates the Wrexham of rugby
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‘Just throw a match on it and you’ll have a raging fire’: Why US investors are pouring money into Prem Rugby clubs – and the plan to take on France with ‘the value of ignorance’, scrap ‘sacred cows’ and make Cornish Pirates the Wrexham of rugby

Towards the end of 2025, staff at Stonewood Capital Management started gathering information on English rugby … ‘Just throw a match on it and you’ll have a raging fire’: Why US investors are pouring money into Prem Rugby clubs – and the plan to take on France with ‘the value of ignorance’, scrap ‘sacred cows’ and make Cornish Pirates the Wrexham of rugbyRead more

SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Lay down the law to showboating Henry Pollock, forget the World Cup, get Jonny Wilkinson to fix Fin Smith and pick these new players: My nine-point plan to save England – and Steve Borthwick’s job
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SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Lay down the law to showboating Henry Pollock, forget the World Cup, get Jonny Wilkinson to fix Fin Smith and pick these new players: My nine-point plan to save England – and Steve Borthwick’s job

England’s 2026 Six Nations campaign was their worst ever. But I don’t see only doom and … SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Lay down the law to showboating Henry Pollock, forget the World Cup, get Jonny Wilkinson to fix Fin Smith and pick these new players: My nine-point plan to save England – and Steve Borthwick’s jobRead more