AND so it came to pass that the Heineken European Cup finally became reality on October 31 1995 at a small stadium just outside the Black Sea port of Constanta when the reigning Romanian champions Farul Constanta entertained mighty Toulouse.
Toulouse won 54-10 in front of a crowd generously estimated at 3,000. In the UK the contest warranted a couple of paragraphs top whack in most national papers although it should be noted that both the South Wales Echo and Swansea Evening Post had both put together hefty eight-page European Cup supplements previewing the tournament generally. The W...