As a global ban leaves the coach's career – and his club – in tatters, The Independent's Chris Hewett reports on a staggering fall from grace.
"Richards, a one-time policeman revered as one of the finest international forwards of his generation and the only coach ever to successfully defend the Heineken Cup – the competition he so notoriously besmirched by overseeing the bogus substitution of the wing Tom Williams with the aid of a blood capsule, and then orchestrating an attempted cover-up – is now off limits until 2012. He cannot so much as guide a colts team through a training session on a wet Tuesday night in his native Leicestershire, far less coach at the top level."
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