Why Leicester - the biggest rugby city in England - has fallen out of love with the Rugby World Cup
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It is arguably the biggest rugby city in England, boasting the country’s biggest team, biggest club stadium, biggest trophy cabinet and biggest number of season-ticket holders.
If there is one place where the Rugby World Cup should be biggest this autumn, it is Leicester.
And yet, less than four months before the start of the second largest sporting event Britain has staged, one of rugby’s traditional heartlands is proving to be the tournament’s greatest headache.
Eight months after World Cup tickets first went on general sale, Leicester remains the only place at which none of its all…
If there is one place where the Rugby World Cup should be biggest this autumn, it is Leicester.
And yet, less than four months before the start of the second largest sporting event Britain has staged, one of rugby’s traditional heartlands is proving to be the tournament’s greatest headache.
Eight months after World Cup tickets first went on general sale, Leicester remains the only place at which none of its all…
