The wrangle between Northampton and Saracens for the services of Soane Tonga’uiha took a new twist yesterday. Northampton re-signed the Tonga prop on a three-year contract, a deal that Saracens declared illegal and irrelevant, and the clubs will meet Premier Rugby Ltd (PRL) next week to try to resolve the issue.

Source: Timeonline.co.uk

The 20 Premier League clubs paid a combined total of almost £150 million in interest charges in the last financial year — the most striking illustration of the cost of the league’s £1.9 billion debt mountain.

Source: Timesonline.co.uk

The governing bodies of football, cricket and rugby all rely heavily on the lavish sums that Sky invests in British sport – a total of £1 billion per year. But they predict that their TV income could fall away dramatically if Sky's whole business model – which uses sport as the prime driver of subscriptions – is undermined by interference from the regulator.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Any prospect of Martin Johnson and Rob Andrew being ejected from their jobs before next year's Rugby World Cup has effectively disappeared as the Rugby Football Union has reiterated its unanimous backing for Johnson's regime and poured several buckets of icy water on the possibility of Sir Clive Woodward returning to Twickenham any time soon.

Source: Guardian.co.uk