'I love watching, playing and learning from it': Gregor Townsend on football

The Scotland rugby union boss explains how time with Pep Guardiola – and days on the terraces – helped him as a coachBy Richard Winton for Nutmeg, part of the Sport Network“I was at Scotland’s last World Cup match,” says Gregor Townsend. “It was my stag weekend and my brother got us to collect coupons from the paper for cheap flights.”Football is a thread that has run through Townsend’s life, whether it be playing for his primary school team and the renowned Hutchison Vale boys’ club; standing with the Tartan Army on the terraces in St Etienne in 1998 as the national team were chastened by Mor…