Six Nations 2015: Excluding Italy would be counter productive - why tamper with a successful tournament?

Italy
to be relegated from the Six Nations championship? That as noble and
dignified a figure as Sergio Parisse had to contend with questions like that
in the wake of defeat at Twickenham on Saturday fills the soul with despair.




Whatever happened to fairness and solidarity and brotherhood? And, yes, since
the thought is in your head somewhere, do you really want to pass up on a
trip to the Trevi Fountain and Piazza Navona every two years?


Sport can be fun as much as it can be business.

But the sporting context holds
sway.

Why deprive an audience running in to mil…