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Sport's Strangest Crimes, Bloodgate, 6. Rugby’s Reckoning

Sport's Strangest Crimes

Bloodgate

6. Rugby’s Reckoning

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March 22, 2025

27 minutes

Available for over a year

medium: As Richards alleges blood cheating is rife, Williams has a difficult return to rugby.

Long: With the full Bloodgate scandal now exposed, rugby enters a period of soul-searching.

Fallen Harlequins coach Dean Richards makes allegations that blood cheating goes to the very top of the game, while Ugo Monye adds his weight to the argument that other teams are culpable.

And when Tom Williams returns to the rugby pitch, he’s given a less than warm welcome by opponent Chris Ashton.

Narrator: Ross Kemp

Reporter/Interviewer: Chris Jones

Writer/Producer: Sam Sheringham

Story editor: Tom Fuller

Sound design/production: Jesse Howard

Digital Producers: Sam Huxley and Stephen Trenchard

Assistant producers: Metin Yilmaz, Jack Wood, Mujtaba Ali and Victoria Turner

BBC 5 Live Sport podcast editor: Matt Smith

Commissioner: Stevie Middleton