Editorial: Many of its current travails are the result of issues left unresolved 30 years ago
became a fully professional sport only in the 1990s and aspired to take on the football juggernaut, but that was always hopelessly ambitious.
Many of the sport’s current travails are the result of issues left unresolved 30 years ago, when an amateur, mostly recreational game based on traditional rivalriesto become a global mega-sport. Rugby union lacks the simplicity of football at its best; its stop-start nature, the impenetrability of scrummaging and the arcane nature of the laws make it a challenge for spectators. It may have to accept it will always be more of a minority taste – a passionate game but not a mass market game.
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