European Champions Cup has gone the same way on the field as off it | Eddie Butler

With only Leinster through and Glasgow in contention for the last eight, the competition has followed its French and English architects’ designsTo the relief, no doubt, of the winners of European rugby’s political battle of the past few years, matters on the field have gone the same way. The quarter-finalists of the Champions Cup are resoundingly French and English. Leinster are a proud exception, and at times they played on Saturday like a side that believed they could become champions of Europe for the fourth time. At other times – and perhaps when it mattered, at the end of their last pool …