Former Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards bares his soul in his first major interview following the 'Bloodgate' scandal. He talks to David Walsh in the Sunday Times.
"When asked about the future, he says he doesn’t know what he will do but he needs a little time. “There is still a part of me that is angry about things that have gone on. I need to let the dust settle. People ask me, ‘Will you come back to rugby?’ To come back from a year out, it would be hard but you’d have a good chance. Two years, you are dead and buried. If I find something else that works for me, I won’t come back because this is not the game I signed up to 10 or 15 years ago.”
"...“People have said to me the biggest mistake I made was in choosing the wrong person to substitute. In some respects they’re right but I shouldn’t have done it. Of course the way we did it, the manner in which we did it, wasn’t well thought out. But we shouldn’t have done it, it was wrong. It’s something that other head coaches and directors of rugby have done during their careers. I honestly don’t believe you would have got through a Premiership weekend last season without it happening once.”
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