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RFU council member quits after discriminatory online attack on Maggie Alphonsi
A Rugby Football Union council member has stepped down hours after a discriminatory social-media post about World Cup-winning pundit Maggie Alphonsi surfaced, thrusting the governing body's internal culture back into view.
Desk note: Monexus treats this as a governance story, not a personality story. The wire framing centred the resignation; the structural question is what the episode reveals about how English rugby polices its own elected leadership.
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