The latest episode looks at how Romanian rugby boomed in the 1950s, threatening the Five Nations’ dominance of European rugby union, as its club sides proved to be more than a match for the top English and Welsh teams. Then the British Foreign Office stepped in...
We uncover the secret history of Anglo-Romanian ‘rugger diplomacy’, the role played by England rugby union great Wavell Wakefield, and discover the rugby league link in all this. If you think that politics in rugby is a recent thing, think again.
