Reasons to love rugby union are the same as those that make us worry about it | Andy Bull

As more has been discovered about dementia and its victims, Test rugby has made me wince more than smile this autumnIt was one of those tackles that seemed to stop the game dead. Midway through the first half of England’s match against France on Sunday, the French centre Yoram Moefana came fast up the middle of the pitch, ran slap-bang into two English forwards, Billy Vunipola and Sam Underhill, who teamed up in a tackle that didn’t just knock Moefana back the way he came, but seemed to arrest the entire French team and roll them all back down the pitch like a wave retreating from the beach. D…