Now the party's over, let's clean up all this mess
Bathgate fall-out hides confusion created by rugby's double standards over drugs, alcohol and violence, writes james Corrigan in the Independent on Sunday.
"The NHS website advises that one of the most unpleasant reactions to cocaine are "involuntary jerking movements in the body". Spot on there. Whenever sporting governing bodies encounter the evil powder, their knees – and indeed, those of the media – happen to jerk so violently that all sense of comparable justice and ethical perspective are knocked flying.
The last month at Bath Rugby has been a headcase in point. Rarely have the twisted values of our profes- sional pursuits been so exposed and rarely have these distortions been so ignored. In the rush to scream of the drugs menace stalking our dressing rooms the great and the righteous of this trade have drawn a veil over the double standards in operation."
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