Storm clouds gather as rugby’s summer becomes the new winter

The game’s calendar is expanding with the next Lions tour to South Africa stretching into AugustTheresa May would have felt right at home at Twickenham on Tuesday. Even a workable Brexit deal sometimes feels more achievable than locating the solution to rugby union’s unfeasibly tight fixture calendar. For a quarter of a century, if not longer, the sport has been trying to squeeze a globally-accepted quart into a disputed pint pot and the eureka moment has yet to materialise.We still live in an age where the faintest of tweaks, largely irrelevant in the wider scheme of things, are hailed as tri…