Rugby's Big Bang

Sport and the British by BBC

Mar 7, 201213:12Society & Culture

Clare Balding explores why Rugby Union tried to stand firm against the encroaching tide of professionalism and in August 1995, lost. One by one the old bastions of the sporting gentleman had fallen in the 1960s and 1970s...

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