Dean Richards has an instinct for rugby but when he says that retired players are soon forgotten, his instinct deserts him. “A couple of years after Paul Dodge retired, I bumped into a couple of young Tigers supporters and they asked who he was,” Richards recalled of the former Leicester and England captain, but there will be no such memory loss at Welford Road today.
For the first time since his angry departure in February 2004 from the club he served as player and team manager for 23 years, Richards returns to Leicester at the helm of a Harlequins team who have put down strong roots in the top half of the Guinness Premiership. So distressed was Richards at the manner of his going that