None of the red cards, suspensions or social media raging is going to make any difference to a player’s future health
so many wanted through the most embarrassingly tortuous process, which has further damaged the sport’s credibility, already in tatters from the endless stream of red cards. Now he is suspended, is rugby back on its path to the angels? Now thatfor a similar split-second incident – which, like Farrell’s, happened so quickly it was missed by everyone in real time – is rugby “safe again”?
Even if they did have any effect on those metrics, the real threat awaiting rugby is from the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in future life, which has nothing to do with one-off incidents, concussive or not. This should set into some sort of context the madness of the past fortnight. None of it – the red cards, the bans, the senseless raging on social media – is going to make the slightest difference to any rugby player’s future health. Nor will the sorry fiasco of red cards for unintentional mishaps make any difference to the path rugby is hurtling along towards its own apocalypse, other than to propel it onwards even faster.
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