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.
Look at it now.
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