The impending crisis at London Irish has been averted after the club’s owner, Mick Crossan, belatedly confirmed he would pay the players their April wages, but the Exiles’ future remains uncertain unless a proposed takeover is completed in the coming weeks.
Crossan’s intervention has staved off the prospect of breach-of-contract letters being sent to the club by the squad on another chaotic day for London Irish that had put Saturday’s final match of the season against Exeter into doubt. The players were due to be paid last Friday but the club were waiting on an injection of funds from their prospective buyers, a US consortium.
