Euro Cup turmoil as Covid traps the teams

By ALEX BYWATER

EUROPEAN Rugby chiefs are said to be “worried” and “concerned” for the start of next month’s Champions Cup with three of the competition’s teams currently stuck in South Africa.
Welsh sides Scarlets and Cardiff, plus Irish giants Munster, had been preparing for United Rugby Championship games in the southern hemisphere this weekend.
But the sudden emergence of a new Covid-19 variant first found by scientists in Africa saw the Rainbow Nation placed on the British Government’s travel red list on Friday.
It has left the three teams scrabbling to get home.
Last night, Cardiff, ...

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