Clubs demand input in shaping international rugby calendar

Premiership CEO and French counterpart send letterPost-pandemic plans for England to have hectic autumnAn escalating club versus country row intensified on Monday with Premiership Rugby demanding a say in any changes to the international calendar when the sport resumes in a letter sent to World Rugby and the Rugby Football Union.The Premiership chief executive, Darren Childs, and his French counterpart, Paul Goze, both signed the letter addressed to World Rugby, the RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney and the France federation president Bernard Laporte, insisting that it was “essential” that the …