European Champions Cup: turbulence on field may shape new landscape | Eddie Butler

A different base, a different name and a different trophy but Leicester and Toulouse are just two of the old Europe teams who may struggle to adjustIt wasnt exactly the bloodiest of coups, shifting headquarters from neutral Ireland to neutral Switzerland, and reducing the participants by four. The replacement of the old European Rugby Cup company in Dublin with the new European Professional Club Rugby of Neuchâtel was not so much an exercise in levelling rugby society as giving it a bit of a makeover. Trimming fat, squeezing a Celtic pimple, leaving cheeks with the blush of an English ro…