RFU apologises after kit gaffe

After two days of fending off brickbats, the RFU has apologised "to those who may have taken offence" over the new England playing kit.




Was it worth it?


Marketing departments are paid a lot of money to do many things, one of them being to portray whoever they represent in the best light.

Trying to 'sell' an eye-wateringly priced replica shirt with a shelf life of months which is only likely to be worn by the national side a few times was never going to be easy.

But the decision by the RFU and Canterbury to cash in on the VC was always likely to backfir…