RUGBY MATTERS

THE greatest single performance in the Heineken Cup? That’s a tricky one, there have been so many, but when pressed I normally opt for Toulouse’s 51-10 annihilation of Harlequins in the quarter-finals of the 1997-98 competition. The two clubs go again this afternoon and there is a definite crackle of anticipation that augers well.
To set the scene on that crisp November afternoon in the Pink city. Quins were riding high domestically and had qualified top from a testing pool which included Munster, Cardiff and Bourgoin and had high hopes as they travelled south early in the we...