How Ugo Mola became fall guy for Guy Noves’ Toulouse woes

It’s five years since mighty Toulouse last won a trophy, their longest barren spell since the early 1980s. Has it become a comfort-zone club, and how much responsibility must the man who turned Toulouse into a European powerhouse bear for that?

It was a famous day in 2008 when Munster beat Toulouse to win the Heineken Cup, confirmation to the Red Army their boys were truly the dominant force in European rugby.

That was because Munster had defeated the club that, for over a decade, had ruled the tournament with magisterial grace.