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

WHEN it comes to the old, full bore County Championship, it was Yorkshire, Lancashire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire and occasionally Cornwall who grabbed the headlines and to a certain extent sustained the tournament, but arguably the most star-studded and enterprising champions of all were Surrey in 1971.
This weekend is the 50th anniversary of their one and only outright title – a 14-3 win over Gloucestershire at Kingsholm – although four years earlier they had frustratingly shared th...