European club season hangs by a thread after France cancels Top 14 season

Champions Cup unlikely to finish in satisfactory fashionPremiership in serious limbo with one club under threatAny chance of a neat and tidy end to this European club rugby season looks increasingly forlorn following the decision in France to cancel the Top 14 campaign and concentrate on launching a full 2020-21 season in September.It makes it very difficult to see how the 2019-20 Champions Cup can now be satisfactorily completed, with the tournament still marooned at its last-eight stage. With French clubs filling three of its quarter-final berths, any faint chance of knockout European rugby …