Rugby union's charms buried under defensive landslide in Autumn Nations Cup | Robert Kitson

A climate in which flair is seen as too risky bodes ill for England v France, and the game cannot afford another turkey Common ground is hard to find these days. Whether it be politics, the climate crisis or sport, there is generally a hardcore prepared to argue that, actually, black is white or down is up, even if overwhelming evidence exists to the contrary. The exception is rugby union, where creeping unease about the game as an uplifting spectacle is now virtually universal.Take the Autumn Nations Cup, conceived as a means of cheering everyone up in the absence of the usual November Test s…