A few days after the entire Wasps playing and coaching staff had been made redundant in a brutally abrupt meeting at the club’s training ground, Jack Willis’s emotions were still painfully raw. The England flanker woke early one morning and began scrolling through photographs of all the times he had played for the club alongside his brother, Tom. “It was 7am and I woke up my partner Megan because I was blubbering into my phone,” Willis recalled.
The players had been expecting Wasps to be placed into administration on October 17 but they were blindsided by the news that a club with 155 years of history and two European titles would cease operating immediately, leaving 167 people out of work. Everyone in the room was
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