Business of Sport: Daily Mail is wrong but the Saudi rugby storm is still coming

Business of Sport: Daily Mail is wrong but the Saudi rugby storm is still coming
Ardie Savea of the All Blacks talks to the media during a press conference after a NZ All Blacks training session. (Image: Getty)
Trevor McKewen
It’s a headline I’ve been expecting to read. I just didn’t know when.But there it was in the middle of the week leading up to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals ... an “exclusive” in England’s Daily Mail.“Is Test rugby on the brink of a Middle Eastern takeover?”(Image: Daily Mail)Beneath the blazing headline, the Mail breathlessly claimed the Springboks and the Wallabies are the subjects of tabled investment offers from Middle East sovereign wealth funds.Qatar has approached Australia, and Saudi A...

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