Rugby union’s medical crisis

In the context of moves in both the northern and Southern Hemispheres towards a global rugby union season – and a slew of potential (increasingly radical) changes in the laws of the game apparently being floated that might make it more spectator/viewer-friendly and thereby more profitable – but also the attendant “grim reality” that the majority of English Premiership clubs are wrestling with financial issues – the vexed growing head injury/concussion (early onset dementia) crisis among current and former players just won’t go away.

Touring the newspaper website this morning I spotted this piece by Gerard Meagher on a potentially-bombshell review commissioned by the RFU into the position of rugby union in U.K. schools:

See here – THE GUARDIAN