RFU will deploy undercover safety guards for the Premiership remaining at Twickenham – one 12 months after the showpiece fixture was disrupted by Simply Cease Oil protestors

Undercover safety guards will likely be deployed within the Twickenham crowd for Saturday’s Premiership remaining between Northampton and Tub.

Final 12 months’s showpiece fixture between Saracens and Sale was disrupted by Simply Cease Oil protestors, with flanker Tom Curry having to tug certainly one of them off the pitch.

The match was simply certainly one of plenty of sporting occasions briefly suspended by the local weather activist group in 2023, who additionally protested at Wimbledon, the snooker World Championship on the Crucible, and Lord’s throughout final summer season’s Ashes. 

There are additionally heightened safety considerations after three individuals invaded the pitch at Wembley throughout final weekend’s Champions League remaining between Actual Madrid and Dortmund. 

Mail Sport’s Aadam Patel went undercover in the course of the European conflict to show the convenience at which ticketless followers may achieve entry to the house of English soccer, spending simply £150 to repay a steward. 

Final 12 months’s remaining was infiltrated by local weather activists from Simply Cease Oil who made it to the pitch

Premiership Rugby’s chief progress officer referred to as the fracas eventually 12 months’s occasion ‘regrettable’

This weekend’s match is an 82,000 sell-out and an RFU spokesperson mentioned: ‘Our safety preparations are regularly assessed and proportionate to the scale and scale of occasion going down on the stadium at any given time.’

Rob Calder, Premiership Rugby’s chief progress officer, added: ‘Final 12 months was regrettable. 

‘The RFU are clearly liable for something that occurs of that nature so they’re throughout it – fingers crossed there will not be something like that once more.’