The gentleman’s beastly game
From 7 February to 21 March, the Six Nations championship will be dominating Europe’s sports headlines. The sport is renewing itself without having to sacrifice its original values - whether its in an emergent Italy to the raw youth of Georgian players, or coming from a French-Romanian player determined to create a revolution in European law
Rugby: an equal opportunity sport?
‘Rugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing,’ actor Richard Burton once said. Ordered chaos, rule-ridden – or rather ‘laws’, according to the jargon – but also with tackles, scrums, and ferocious tries, rugby is savagery bound in an iron-clad ethic
French-Romanian rugby player Marius Tincu scrums down with EU law
The 30-year-old is refusing to adhere to the rules, which could contravene European employment law. International authorities are investigating
