London Welsh's appeal win is a rare victory for the small man and for common sense too Northampton are another team who never looked back after a reality check of dropping back into the Championship. It's not the end of the world: the Championship is a vibrant, extremely tough, league, full of proper rugby clubs who, given half a chance, could contribute so much more to the English game. That's the whole point of this landmark decision. The Premiership did a fine job at the dawn of professionalism but they, the brave free-market pioneers who have got the ball rolling, should be the last people to get petty and start throwing the rule book at an ambitious club like London Welsh who only ask for the same opportunity. Where would Saracens, Exeter and Worcester, to mention just three thriving Premiership clubs, be without being granted that very same opportunity. London Welsh might fall at the first fence next season and come tumbling straight down. So be it, that's sport. They might cling on tenaciously or they might take us by surprise and actually prosper. Whatever the outcome they have earned their run at glory and something "bigger and better." Without that opportunity to better themselves the Championship will die a quick death. Fine clubs, such as Cornish Pirates, Bedford, Nottingham and others, will disappear. The one massive advantage English rugby has over every rugby nation in the world is that it should have the wherewithal to run two fully professional leagues. Do that, increase the number of fully professional players, and logic tells you that the strength in depth of English rugby should rise accordingly. So there you have it, a brave battle well won on and off the pitch. Of course it would have been a complete scandal had the high powered trio of QCs gathered for the occasion come up with any other verdict but we have come to expect the worst when vested interests compete with fairness and logic. A strange but rather wonderful day, all things taken into consideration.