Darren Bailey, who is now a sports lawyer, says every aspect of the game needs overhauling in the aftermath of coronavirus
There is a line in The Plague, the novel by Albert Camus now enjoying a revival, that still chimes. “Officialdom can never cope with something really catastrophic: what they are short of is imagination.”
As sport plots the slow route back to action, initially behind closed doors, it has the chance to chart a new way forward, not least rugby union, whose hand-to-mouth existence has been exposed.
Written by Paul Rees
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