Twickenham cashing in

TWiCKenHAM’S licence to print money is such that the new £65m revamp to the east Stand to bring 9,500 official corporate hospitality covers all together from next year’s autumn internationals is going to be paid off in just five years.

And such is the drinking culture at rugby’s HQ that the RFU revealed yesterday that a whopping 40 per cent of their match-day alcohol takings — a high six-figure sum — occur during the game itself, including the half-time interval.

no wonder the commercially rampant RFU will not consider shutting the bars during play to stop the constant traffic to the bars.