Richmond’s trip to London Irish reminds of Premiership promise and unfairness | Robert Kitson

The club, cruelly forced into administration and dumped from the top tier in 1999, now have an amateur side facing a professional outfit boasting an All BlackAt first glance it looks like any normal fixture. London Irish v Richmond in the Greene King Championship, kick-off 3pm. Tickets still very much available if you are free on Saturday afternoon. Beneath the low-key facade, however, lies an occasion awash with irony. For anyone with a passing interest in the strange economics and murky past politics of English club rugby this is not any old game. Related: ‘The RFU Championship has become th…