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Sport in brief: April 9, 2025
England's Callum Watkins is tackled by Combined Nations Allstars XIII's Shaun Kenny-Dowell during the Mid-Season International match at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, Warrington, June 18, 2022

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: Welsh rugby’s woes deepened on Tuesday afternoon with the announcement that Cardiff are entering administration.

The blue and blacks are currently Wales’s highest-ranked team in the United Rugby Championship and are two-time winners of the European Challenge Cup but recorded a loss of over £2 million in their last accounts.

Welsh Rugby’s governing body the WRU are expected to take over the short-term management of the club.

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