• Premiership Rugby says it received request from Mourad Boudjellal
• Boudjellal says English league better run and has better prospectsNothing is impossible in professional sport but the request by Toulon’s president,Mourad Boudjellal, for his club to join the Premiership certainly qualifies as the season’s most spectacularly left-field concept.
While the plan is a non-starter under Rugby Football Union regulations, and it will intrigue those who foresee a pan-European league as the future for club rugby. Premiership Rugby officials believe confirmed they received an emailed letter from Boudjellal,who insists he is “serious” approximately joining a league he regards as better run than the French Top 14.
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Source: theguardian.com