SO, UEFA deemed it necessary to hire extra security guards to protect their new AI-based draw for the Champions League from falling victim to a cyber attack. It jerked the memory back to a Christmas long gone when the festive spirit played merry hell with another draw, in the name of what was then the sport’s most popular knock-out event.
The WRU Cup, still able during the pre-Heineken Cup days of the Eighties to attract bigger crowds for their final than the RFU at Twickenham for theirs, had reached the last 16 stage. The draw would be made at Pontypridd RFC, its clubhouse sui...