Pressure was mounting on Tuesday night on Harlequins chairman Charles Jillings and chief executive Mark Evans to explain their actions in the light of claims by Tom Williams that both men attempted to limit the scope of his appeal that ultimately blew the lid on ‘Bloodgate’. Gavin Mairs reports for the Daily Telegraph.
"The judgment of Williams’s appeal revealed his evidence that Evans also warned him that a “full disclosure” at the appeal hearing would “make life extremely difficult for him at the club” and warned him that potential sanctions against Quins, including expulsion from the Heineken Cup and possible relegation from the Premiership would be his responsibility.
"...The club were unavailable for comment on Tuesday night but there was little sympathy for Harlequins at the European Rugby Cup clubs’ conference at a hotel near Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris. Refereeing interpretations of the tackle area and mauling were officially on the agenda but afterwards the buzz in the hotel bar centred on the sensational revelations contained in Williams’s judgment."
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