Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points, by Brendan Gallagher
I have no great wish to kick a man when he is down, so to speak, but the rugby public seemed to vote with their feet last weekend when the Champions Cup served up a strange and ultimately unfulfilling mix of quarter-finals.
Now I am not going to put the boot in totally because although for the best part of two decades, I always thought Heineken Cup quarter-final weekend to be the highlight of any non-World Cup season – and that includes the Six Nations – such fixtures have always had a life and momentum ...
