IN THE best of all Scarlet worlds, the Basque city of Bilbao will be in for a Welsh language make-over next month on the occasion of the Champions’ Cup final.
When it comes to paying their dues, nobody can have stumped up more than the Scarlets towards reaching the final without getting there. The semi-final later this month against Leinster or Saracens will be their fourth, the previous three having ended in heart-break.
Against Northampton in 2000, they lost to a late long-range Paul Grayson penalty. Two years later, they fell victim to the freakish goal that Tim Stimpson bounced ov...