FOUND: 4 - What They Never Told You

Record losses and bumper bonuses – the pay row tearing apart English rugby

Grassroots rebellion over executive pay has now seen the chair of the RFU board stand down – how did it come to this?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2024

Tom Ilube resigns as RFU chairman amid pay controversy

Tom Ilube has resigned as chairman of the Rugby Football Union amid controversy over executive pay.

The National (Scotland) · Dec 20, 2024

Bill Beaumont appointed interim RFU chairman as civil war breaks out

Sir Bill Beaumont has been appointed interim chairman of the Rugby ­Football Union after Tom Ilube stepped down

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2024

‘Enormous and irreparable damage’: former chairmen call for resignations at RFU

Three former chairmen of the RFU have called for the mass resignations of the union’s current hierarchy

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2024

The tone deaf decision that has plunged England’s Rugby Football Union into crisis

Uproar over the payment of a large bonus at a time of financial strife has imperiled chief executive Bill Sweeney

The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2024

RFU’s annual report shows a worrying decline. Has it lost its purpose?

Beneath headline figures of the chief executive’s bumper pay packet, what does the RFU stand for and want to achieve?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2024

Bill Sweeney: RFU chief earns £1.1m despite union reporting record losses

Chief executive’s salary rises by 8.5 per cent over 12 months, annual report shows

Evening Standard · Nov 25, 2024

RFU chief paid £1.1m despite record losses and job cuts

The RFU’s annual report shows an operating loss of £37.9m - the highest it has recorded

The Independent UK · Nov 25, 2024

Chief executive Bill Sweeney paid £1.1million despite RFU’s record losses

Sweeney’s salary is an 8.5 per cent increase over 12 months after he was paid £684,000 in 2023.

The Independent UK · Nov 25, 2024

RFU chief executive’s salary rose to £1.1m despite redundancies and record losses

The salary for Bill Sweeney, chief executive of the Rugby Football Union, rose to £1.1m during the 2023-24 financial year despite record losses

The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2024