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WELCOME BACK RUGBY. Welcome back Guinness Pro14. Welcome back derby day. The league will resume later this month with two weeks’ worth of local rivalries before we head to the play-offs. So here we delve into the history books to celebrate the most glorious, most unpredictable and, frankly, the most bonkers derbies in the history of the championship in all its guises, from its inception as the Celtic League nearly 20 years ago.
That inaugural league started on 17 August 2001 when Paul John’s Pontypridd beat a Bridgend team coached by his father Dennis. A quiz question for you: a dad of two very famous England rugby players sat on the bench for Ponty that day. Who was he? Answer at the bottom of the piece, but for now, a romp through nostalgia…
10 GLASGOW 37-34 EDINBURGH
(Scotstoun, April 2014)
A Scottish barn-buster in front of a then-record Scotstoun crowd of nearly 9,000. That might seem like a trifling number to some, but in a city so dominated by football it represented steady progress for rugby in Glasgow.
It was coach Gregor Townsend’s birthday and the win virtually guaranteed his side a home semi-final
