RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points

Anybody watching the crowd scenes in front of the big screen at Place Capitol during the Champions Cup final and then the welcome home party in the same venue 24 hours later might be excused for thinking Toulouse is the rugby capital of the world. And they would be right. In my view, anyway.
Ever since first visiting Toulouse in a rugby capacity in 1986 for a long forgotten international challenge event called the Toulouse Masters, I’ve looked upon the Pink city as the mother city. It ticks every rugby box i...