Billy Vunipola at a loss about how to stop rise of brutal rugby’s big beasts

• England and Saracens No 8 says game is tougher than ever
• ‘Sometimes you just have to run over or through people’

Billy Vunipola has warned that rugby union is more brutal than ever but admits he does not know how the sport can fix the problem.

The Saracens and England No 8, who has started only three internationals in two years because of injuries to his shoulders, knees and arms, was responding to an RFU report that revealed the severity of injuries in top-level English rugby is on the rise.

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