Writing in The Times, Matthew Syed insists that the most shocking aspect of the "deplorable" Bloodgate episode is that it forms part of a wider pattern of appalling behaviour within rugby.
"There comes a time when an institution is so deep in the mire, so steeped in scandal and immorality, so corrupted by greed and cynicism, that those on the inside are no longer able to perceive, still less comprehend, the extent of their own depravity.
"That is the sordid position in which rugby union finds itself as the world begins to absorb the sickening revelations that emerged from an appeal hearing in Glasgow on Monday evening."
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