Wasps completed their slide from top to bottom last night when the former champions of Europe were dumped at the foot of English rugby’s playing pyramid.
Seven months after folding with debts totalling £95 million, they failed to hit an RFU deadline to meet commitments required to reinvent themselves in the second tier Championship.
RFU boss Bill Sweeney said: “This is not the outcome anyone in rugby wanted and all those involved with the club will be deeply disappointed.”
