Toulon

The European Champions Cup final at the weekend displayed many things: the dominance of French rugby in Europe, the dominance of Toulon’s rugby in France, and, above all else for English fans, the dominance of England’s outcast hero in Toulon, Steffon Armitage. Armitage has been dominating headlines for the...

Italian veteran Martin Castrogiovanni dominated the rugby headlines for all the wrong reasons this week, albeit for the reasons that he intended. Following Toulon’s 25-21 defeat to Leicester last week, the French team’s prop called a press conference in which he unleashed an expletive-ridden tirade against the Tiger’s head...