ONE of Rugby Union’s greatest failings is that it often does not recognise the value of what it has until it is too late – and the European Cup could become the latest victim of that malaise.
The way in which Lions tours have been squeezed into an ever-shrinking five-week window despite more travelling support than any event in our sport bar the World Cup is a prime example.
Even that act of vandalism could be trumped by French Rugby Federation president Bernard Laporte’s proposal for a new Club World Cup, which threatens to send the European Cup into oblivion despite...