Champions Cup is an Anglo-French affair and England call the shots | Eddie Butler

The Pro12 must catch the Premiership and Top 14 in the European Champions Cup, where the last eight consist of five English and three French teamsThe quarter-finals of the European Champions Cup are a determinedly Anglo-French affair, with five clubs from the Premiership and three from the Top 14 making up the last eight. This must be as pleasing for the architects of European rugby as it is disturbing for the victims of the coup of 2014.Those victims have a repository, the Pro12, a cross-border competition in its own right, but one that in its stretch – all the way from Glasgow and Galway to …