Steve Borthwick has taken the unusual decision to select Fin Smith and Marcus Smith as the only specialist fly halves in a 36-man England squad for the...

Rugby union has never been cleaner. Just about all traces of thuggery have been wiped out. Yet the red cards seem to be coming thicker and faster. Saturday’s...

Appropriately for someone with such a sharp sense of how and when to hit a line, Simon Zebo appears to be timing his last run in professional rugby to...

It seems so long ago. The pre-World Cup England of Steve Borthwick and the post-competition side that summoned the courage to accelerate away from the tedium...

The laws of unintended consequences struck with a vengeance in what was a thrilling Twickenham experience. It was early in the second half and Bath had...

This was one of the greatest finals — and I am including in that reckoning any final, of any event, wherever it was staged. Northampton Saints are champions —...

The business of professional club rugby in England remains precarious but the mood around the Gallagher Premiership could not be more starkly different to...

Is it really 30 years since my final game for Bath? We stepped out into a packed Twickenham, with Leicester the opponents. It was a decent enough performance....

In a quiet hotel bar in a quiet Paris suburb on an everyday Friday morning, we are 35 minutes into our interview when the peace is broken and the volume and...

Lee Radford was preaching to the converted when he addressed the Northampton Saints squad for the first time after joining as the club’s new defence coach....