RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

THE Heineken Cup – sorry the Investec European Champions Cup – has faded more than a little in the last decade of radical format changes and annexation of South Africa as a European state… but my pulse did quicken a little recently when I saw the fixtures for next weekend’s opening round.
There it was. Resurgent Pau against Leicester Tigers, pretty much 30 years to the day since I embarked on my first European Cup road trip to take in that very same fixture, followed...