The Investec Champions Cup is at its best when reputation, ambition and a home crowd collide. Bordeaux and Gloucester gave the tournament exactly that in a five-try-each, 36-36 opener that felt like a warning to every team planning to travel with a second-choice side.
Bordeaux are the defending champions, and as they did in the start to their campaign in Pretoria last season, they arrived at Kingsholm with their best team because they understood what awaited them. Gloucester had finished eighth in the English Premiership last season and slipped into the tournament. But 16,500 people packed the ground and the
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