12 players including Robshaw went out for dinner in LondonOfficials searching for replacements to fill Barbarians squadEngland’s autumn curtain-raiser has been plunged into chaos after the former national captain Chris Robshaw was one of 12 Barbarians players to go on an unauthorised night out on Wednesday, breaching strict Covid protocols and placing Sunday’s match at Twickenham in serious doubt. The dozen have been banished from the squad and the famous annual fixture will be called off if the Barbarians cannot find enough replacements by Friday afternoon.
The Guardian has been told that Robshaw and a number of the squad’s Saracens contingent, understood to include Richard Wigglesworth, Sean Maitland and Jackson Wray, were among 12 players who went out for dinner in central
London. The Barbarians have strongly denied that any heavy drinking was involved but the players contravened a Covid code of conduct they had all agreed to.