Cheating has always been part of rugby union. In the supposedly all-amateur days, some players cheated society, writes Patrick Barclay in The Times.
"Cheating is hard to define. I read an interview with Richards that, though generally self-pitying, did contain one reasonable argument when he referred to the ball-tampering allegations against Mike Atherton and asked: “All he got was a slap on the wrist. Is there any difference?” Equally it might be said that everyone tampers with the cricket ball — but that, I sense, was also part of Richards’s pleading.
"Diego Maradona got away with what is considered, at least in England, the most outrageous piece of cheating. He was not banned by the World Cup authorities until eight years later, when he failed a drug test."
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