The Rugby Paper: Canal Plus keep rights in bumper Top 14 deal

There’s rugby … and,
then, there’s French rugby

Me, on cause for celebration after French top-flight rugby’s record TV rights deal.

Metaphorical – and, no doubt, a few literal – champagne corks were firing at the early Spring sun shining on Top 14 clubs the length and breadth of France this week, after a TV rights auction landed them a monster four-year €454.4million domestic rights deal.

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There’s rugby … and,
then, there’s French rugby