Matthew Syed, writing in The Times, is perplexed by Dean Richards raising his head again so soon after Bloodgate.
"The episode undoubtedly asks searching questions of a sport seeking to rehabilitate itself. For a start, how could any self-respecting club hire a man who heaped such disgrace on the game? Why has there been no outcry from the insiders party to the deal? And, perhaps most sinister of all, why did the RFU not come clean about the fact that Richards was once again earning money from the sport, leaving it instead to a journalist from this newspaper to break the story?
"We would do well to remember that in the aftermath of the match between Harlequins and Leinster, Williams’s lip was cut by Wendy Chapman, the club doctor, in order to engineer evidence retrospectively of a blood injury that never occurred.
"Chapman is still under suspension by the General Medical Council for her part in the affair. We should also remember that Richards was quite willing to use his authority to orchestrate a cover-up that led to the blame initially being heaped on Williams."
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