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The establishment of the Nations Championship, along with a Club World Cup that will be staged for the first time in 2028, have come amid an increasingly competitive battle for rugby's top stars.

This close relationship between the tours on either side of the Atlantic mutually strengthens their positions while Saudi Arabia-funded LIV tries to make inroads against the golfing establishment.

"It indicates that the balance of power is tilted in favour, heavily tilted in favour, of the establishment."

"Theirs was the ultimate love story - Isidor epitomised the American Dream, rising from humble immigrant to a titan of the New York establishment, owning Macy's department store," a spokesperson for the auction house said.

And now the political and media establishment is listening, but finding it harder and harder to act, to speak.