CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST

Younger readers may be surprised to learn that back in the days when dinosaurs were roaming the corridors of Twickenham – we’re talking mid- 1990s here – there was a passion-killer of a competition called The Divisional Championship.
They will be even more startled to know that there are rugby folk who, even now, yearn for its resurrection, in the way some people crave the return of Tsarist Russia, or chimney sweeps, or public flogging.
A brief tutorial, then. There were four divisions – London, the Midlands, the North, the South and South-West – and they p...