Almond describes how one of her team-mates, Sue Martineau, wrote to several men’s rugby clubs to convince “these alickadoo men” to introduce a women’s arm – and Wasps agreed.

Bill Sweeney, chief executive of the Rugby Football ... sunk” and the captains are “nowhere to be seen”. Four-time Premiership winners and two-time European champions Wasps will follow ...

Wasps have rotated their squad with full-back Kurtley Beale and captain Joe Launchbury rested and Kyle Eastmond starting at inside centre. Former Leicester Tigers No 8 and current Newcastle director ...

players and other rugby stakeholders over the format of next season. "In the case of Wasps, the RFU board conditionally approved the takeover, but not all the conditions set have yet been met ...