Eddie Butler offers his view on rugby's recent issues and the respective plights of Gavin Henson, Andy Powell and Ben Foden in The Guardian.
"Rugby is, it seems, bingeing its way into the headlines, and not just through the well-oiled conduit of booze. We have had a politico-poetic bust-up between Wales's defence coach, Shaun Edwards, and their sports scientist, Fergus Connolly, over an Irish folk song sung in Paris. We have had Delon Armitage rough-handling a doping officer after a London Irish game. Music and drugs; rugby is rock and roll.
"The demon drink though is the regular purveyor of scandal: Ben Foden, England's baby-faced full back, in an altercation in a London cab; Bradley Davies, second-row for the Cardiff Blues and Wales, arrested after a much bigger ruck at the Deck pub in Saundersfoot. Others are not so new to the paparazzi. Danny Cipriani, who left England to start afresh with the Melbourne Rebels in the Super 15, was "reminded of his responsibilities" after being banned from the Boutique nightclub in the Prahran area of the city."
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