Just when you thought sports administrators couldn't get any worse, England's Rugby Football Union goes the extra mile.
Words can hardly describe the awful, deceitful way the committee men of the RFU disposed of their head coach, Brian Ashton. Ashton had taken England to a World Cup final and to the country's best Six Nations finish for five years. He had been promised the right to choose a team manager. He had been told that he was the right man to take England forward.
Lies, all lies. While the committee men were making their promises, Rob Andrew - the laughably titled director of elite rugby - was chatting up Martin Johnson, the man who captained England to World Cup glory in 2003. Surprise, surprise, Johnson has now been named as England's new all-powerful rugby supremo.
Johnson may prove a huge success. But nothing can excuse the utterly unprincipled way England Rugby have behaved. Sporting organisations presume that normal rules of human behaviour should not apply to them. If there is any justice, England will continue to underperform for years to come.
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