Rugby-Leicester coach fined over betting code breaches (Reuters)
Leicester defence coach Phil Blake has been suspended for six months after being found guilty of two breaches of betting regulations last season, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) said on Thursday. The two matches in question were Leicester’s Champions Cup game against Toulon in December and a Premiership meeting with Newcastle in March. “This is the first such case that we know of in rugby union and is certainly the first brought under the relatively new Regulation 17 so this is new ground,” RFU disciplinary panel chairman Christopher Quinlan said in a statement.