Late penalty from Frédéric Michalak proved just enough to save Toulon from their first home defeat in Europe’s elite competition

Scrumhalf believes penalties conceded not salaries cost Leinster game against Toulon

No easy solution for organisers in the aftermath of events in Paris

EPCR is currently working ‘to consider all possible fixture permutations’

‘Unacceptable, international calendar does not take into account the domestic game’

Competition retains old drama in its new guise even if it is devalued by early finish

Ireland’s former defensive coach the guiding influence with Champions Cup contenders

The English side are a different beast to when they lost by 25 points in Dublin in 2012

Money pouring into Anglo-French rugby bodes ill for aspirations of Celtic sides in future

Gerry Thornley: Munster kicking themselves after talent slips through fingers

The current European Player of the Year is considering leaving Toulon to further England career

‘The Irish are very pragmatic. They realised what they’d had couldn’t last for ever’

Player has not been approached and role with new club body would conflict with punditry work

Commercial partners have yet to be secured for the new competition while expected French TV rights deal has not yet materialised

The Stoop named as venue for Challenge Cup decider

It will be interesting to see if new cup competition embraces the past

Hold-up chiefly down to translation issues and minor financial details with Italians

Well-placed sources maintain Pierre Camou is working assiduously toward saving the ERC-run tournament

Irish sides again stand in the way of Anglo-French power block

Tactics take European rugby to the brink

Irish, Welsh, Scottish and Italian unions opposed to new Rugby Champions Cup

Bath owner Bruce Craig warns of legal action if new tournament is blocked

PRL deputy chairman Bruce Craig says new competition will ‘save European rugby’