Guiness Premiership Rugby
England
Premiership Rugby Union
London Irish vs Bath Rugby
Match scheduled:
Date: 14-02-2010
Time: 16:00 until 18:00
13-02-2010 on 10:49
Guinness Premiership
Although the England team is governed by the Rugby Football Union (RFU), players have been contracted to their clubs since the advent of professionalism in late 1995. Since then, players have often been caught in a "power struggle" between their clubs and the RFU; this is commonly referred to as a club versus country conflict.[96] The first major conflict between England's top clubs (who play in the English Premiership) and the RFU occurred in 1998, when some of the clubs refused to release players to tour Australia
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The expansion of rugby in the first half of the 19th century was driven by ex-pupils from many of England's Public Schools, especially Rugby, who, upon finishing school, took the game with them to universities, to London, and to the counties.[4] England's first international match was against Scotland on Monday 27 March 1871.[5] Not only was this match England's first, but it also proved to be the first ever rugby union international.[5] Scotland won the match by a goal and a try to a try,[6][7] in front of a crowd of 4,000 people at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh
The expansion of rugby in the first half of the 19th century was driven by ex-pupils from many of England's Public Schools, especially Rugby, who, upon finishing school, took the game with them to universities, to London, and to the counties.[4] England's first international match was against Scotland on Monday 27 March 1871.[5] Not only was this match England's first, but it also proved to be the first ever rugby union international.[5] Scotland won the match by a goal and a try to a try,[6][7] in front of a crowd of 4,000 people at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh
