The England and Wales Cricket Board will train hundreds of secondary-school teachers to coach cricket as part of a £3.5 million investment designed to arrest the decline of the game in the state sector. “I am fortunate that I get to spend a lot of time in counties and clubs across England and Wales and I have no doubt that …
The Rugby Football Union has launched a radical plan to save school rugby, which introduces three forms of the game including “reduced contact”, after an independent report predicted it will become a “declining minority sport” without bold changes. The report pulled no punches in its assessment of rugby’s diminishing standing in the “marketplace” of schools sport, stating: “This is an …
Jason Robinson won the World Cup with England in 2003, scoring his side’s only try in the final against Australia in Sydney. As the 46-year-old tells Sportsmail’s DAVID COVERDALE, he is also on a taskforce working alongside the Association for PE, who are lobbying the Government to ensure sport is central to the school day. England's World Cup hero Jason …
