Sam Warburton unimpressed with 'mishmash' Rainbow Cup

'I think you need to keep it to domestic leagues. Ideally I’d have it as just a Celtic league. I think the Italian teams should go into the French league'

Wales' Sam Warburton: Unimpressed with new competition

A bad day for the PRO14 Rainbow Cup became even less comfortable after one of its favourite sons derided the new competition as a “mishmash” and the existing league as “not the best quality product”.

Cardiff Blues, Wales, and Lions legend Sam Warburton was reacting to yesterday’s news that the organisers of the Guinness-sponsored cross-border competition had admitted defeat in bringing together northern hemisphere teams and the new South African franchises for their one-off competition due to public health restrictions arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.