Gregor Townsend: ‘Saracens quarter-final is the ultimate challenge’

He will take the reins for Scotland in the summer but for now the Glasgow Warriors head coach is only focusing on the chance to knock out the all-conquering European champions on Sunday“I was hugely shocked,” Gregor Townsend says as he remembers how, 20 years ago, Glasgow faced Leicester in a play-off to decide which club reached the quarter-finals of the old European Cup. Townsend was a gifted playmaker for Northampton then. Leicester were Northampton’s bitterest rivals and, on a dismal afternoon, they demolished Glasgow 90-19.Townsend is now the inspirational coach of Glasgow Warriors, the r…