As a collision sport, rugby union has a relatively high overall injury incidence, with most injuries being associated with contact events. Historically, the set scrum has been a focus of the sports ...

If rugby’s a circus, then the scrum is its clown car pile-up. Picture eight players from each team — burly and sweaty — locking arms, crouching low, and smashing into each other like human bumper cars ...

It’s not at all on the same scale as what went on in Alan Turing’s Bletchley Park, which may well have helped to shorten the second World War by several years. Nonetheless, it is indeed an enigma. The ...