Rob Andrew is facing calls from all corners to resign
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The Daily Telegraph's Paul Hayward talks to Rob Andrew about his role at the RFU and why he is not resigning from his post amid the worst scandal to hit the organisation in recent years.
"Rob Andrew says he discussed “sending a player home” with Martin Johnson, the then England manager, during the calamitous World Cup campaign, but now faces his own battle to avoid expulsion from the national set-up.
As darkness fell outside Andrew’s Twickenham office, a small note of shock flared in the eyes of the Rugby Football Union’s elite rugby director. Did he hear himself described on Radio 4 that morning as “the Sepp Blatter of rugby”?
Pause. Engage. Andrew rolled on with a passionate defence of his record.
He refused to be disheartened by editorials in national broadsheet newspapers calling for him to go or Sir Clive Woodward’s observation at the weekend: “The absolute key question for me is whether he has the skill-set to appoint the new coach. Experience says he does not.”
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