Wasps will leave downbeat image behind with Ricoh Arena debut | Eddie Butler

The club has sent itself to Coventry but has made a big statement with rugby’s most ambitious relocation yet• Wasps promise not to sting Coventry CityThe Wasps Football Club have always come at rugby with a certain attitude. According to legend, they failed to become a founder member of the Rugby Football Union, formed by 21 interested clubs at the Pall Mall restaurant on Regent Street in late January 1871, because their representative went to the wrong eatery. By the time this 22nd delegate discovered his mistake, he was too wasted to relocate himself.Their old home in Sudbury was always a lo…