Toulon’s itchy feet reveal changing shape of Euro rugby

It’s more than a quarter of a century since the Berlin Wall came down and communism was rolled up like a musty carpet across Eastern Europe.

But travel to pretty much any major city behind the old Iron Curtain, and you can’t help but notice the incongruous sight of crumbling old Soviet-era buildings beside gleaming new glass monuments to capitalism.

Rugby isn’t all that different.