Bloodgate her cutting of Williams's lip to hide his use of the blood capsule.. On 2 September 2009, it was reported that Harlequins had escaped being thrown out of the Heineken Cup following the scandal when the board of organisers European Rugby Cup (ERC) said it approved of the bans and fines already handed out. The affair was dubbed by many in the media "Bloodgate". Leinster won the game 6–5, going on to win the Heineken Cup for the first time. Mark Evans, chief executive of Harlequin FC has said: Richards resigned from his post at Harlequins over an incident in
Lichfield Rugby Union Football Club Lichfield Rugby Union Football Club Lichfield Rugby Union Football Club is a rugby union club based in the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire. The first XV currently play in Midlands Premier of the Midlands Division, a fifth tier league in the English rugby union system. It is one of the oldest rugby football clubs still in active in England, although the oldest in Staffordshire is Stafford Rugby Union Football Club, which was founded the year before, in 1873. The club runs three senior teams, a veterans team, two women's teams and a youth section ranging from under sevens to colts and