PLEASE, please, please can we have our old Heineken European Cup back. The current imposter just doesn’t work until the very final stages. It’s rapidly become a dog’s dinner and has almost used up the vast reservoirs of goodwill and affection we feel towards it.
I take no pleasure in writing this, the European Cup has provided me and countless others with more rugby pleasure and glowing memories than any other tournament or league including the World Cup. But just as somebody eventually had to tell the emperor that he wasn’t wearing any clothes we canȁ...