Exeter’s Rob Baxter hoping to cap ‘fantastic journey’ with Champions Cup win

Exeter rugby director Rob Baxter will oversee the club’s first appearance in a European final. Picture: PA

England’s dominant club Exeter will aim to conquer Europe on Saturday in the latest stage of what Chiefs boss Rob Baxter describes as “a fantastic journey”.

Eleven years to the day since Exeter beat Birmingham and Solihull in a low-key Championship game at Sharmans Cross Road, they will contest European club rugby’s biggest prize in front of an anticipated global television audience of six-seven million.