The Breakdown | Premiership’s cash injection could hit fans, players and lower-tier clubs

Supporters face being squeezed, players pummelled by longer seasons while promotion and relegation are under threat “Money love can help you on, heal you and sustain you, but never turn your back upon, how money love it can change you.” So sang Brian Protheroe in 1974 and money has certainly changed rugby union in the last 24 years.As the 12 Premiership clubs, along with London Irish, plot how to spend the £200m they have received from a private investment company, which largely involves acting as a cartel and shutting out aspirants to the top flight, the Welsh Rugby Union is this week in talk…