Closed-shop start to new era of transparency

PLUS: The Week That Was and the Weekend That Will Be.

Sports administration can be a dry, political subject, so weeks that are dominated by reports into national sporting organisations and the latest panacea for the problems are hardly edge-of-the-seat material for fans.

There is, however, one more thing that needs to be said before we move on to the weekend scores and scorers: if the proposed sports integr…