The Champions Cup cheerleaders were at it again last weekend, united parrot-fashion in their acclamation of ‘rugby’s greatest knockout club tournament’. Removing the aforesaid statement from the realm of fake news requires nothing more than three words of plain English: used to be. Renowned and revered as the
Heineken Cup, it USED TO BE the greatest knock-out club tournament, so great at times that it dared to upstage the Six Nations.
consequent interference with the domestic business of the Prem? The same question has to be asked of Cardiff, once upon a time long...