Simon Halliday given role with European Professional Club Rugby

• Ex-England centre to be chairman of Champions Cup governing body• Gloucester’s Billy Twelvetrees: Challenge Cup final rivals Edinburgh are strong• More rugby union newsThe former England centre Simon Halliday, whose name is invariably linked when the job of Rugby Football Union chief executive falls vacant, has returned to the game as the first independent chairman of the governing body for the European Rugby Champions Cup.Halliday will start the part-time position, which carries a salary of about £40,000 a year, next week, charged with helping European Professional Club Rugby shape it…