Football fiasco has coaches seething

ANOTHER European Rugby Cup cock-up has the rival coaches seething ahead of today’s Heineken European Cup clash between Gloucester and Munster at Kingsholm.

Incredibly, ERC were unable to acquire a sufficient number of footballs to cater for all the weekend’s matches and have come up with a quite extraordinary solution. A young lady was commissioned to attend last night’s game between Sale and Bourgoin and at the final whistle collect five balls there and bring them to Gloucester today.

She will then take possession of the balls at the final whistle and head off for the English midlands where they again go into action in tomorrow’s clash of Northamption and Ulster at Franklins Gardens.