According to The Scotsman's Iain Morrison, the Celtic League has recently made the move out of short trousers and, at the age of nine, it seems the right time to do so.
"As a sign of its growing maturity, the league has finally appointed its first chief executive in the burly form of John Feehan. For all his undoubted abilities, Feehan may need 25-hour days if he is to find time to drive the league to fulfil its potential, since he already heads up the Six Nations and the Lions.
"At least the Irishman will have an eight-man board of directors to help him manage the Magners, and former SRU president Andy Irvine will chair it. David Jordan remains as the operating officer for the league and after years of being head chef and bottle washer, the one-time Glasgow boss finally has the proper support structure in place.
"All in all these are exciting times for the Magners League and even the English press, who have long regurgitated the Sky Sports line about having the best league in the world, have come around to admitting that the Magners might not play host to the pub rugby that some of them had always assumed."
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