Surgeon says being tackled by a modern-day rugby player is like being hit by a TRUCK
Rugby’s professional era created a new breed of powerful players so that being tackled in the modern game is ‘like being hit by a truck’, a sports surgeon who treated ex-England hooker Steve Thompson has said. The sport is facing a reckoning as former players reveal the crippling injuries inflicted by a career of fierce collisions. Demands for … Read more