breakaway

The takeover of the Premier League club, the investment in boxing and the creation of the breakaway golf tournament were met with an abundance of scrutiny.

He said he was a member of the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement, an activist organisation advocating for a breakaway state in south-west Nigeria for the Yoruba ethnic group.

The breakaway region of Transnistria, propped up by Moscow, is still home to a contingent of Russian troops.

Back in 1995, the professionalism of the men's game was sped along by Australian mogul Kerry Packer's World Rugby Corporation, which - like R360 - got players to commit, in theory, to a breakaway league.

North, who is married to former Team GB Olympic cyclist Becky James and has two sons, is impressed by a proposed rebel breakaway league targeting some of the sport's top players.