Newcastle Falcons flying high in Premiership after years of turbulence | Robert Kitson

Sep 28, 2017

It would be a landmark of genuine local significance should Dean Richards’ side beat London Irish on Friday and finish the weekend top of the Premiership

Exactly 20 years ago Newcastle Falcons were in the process of revolutionising English rugby. No club was quicker – thanks to Sir John Hall’s chequebook – to embrace the possibilities of professionalism and no side had ever lifted the domestic title within a year of being promoted. It lingers all the more clearly in the memory because the Falcons have achieved nothing like it since.

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