At this stage last year, Saracens destroyed Clermont Auvergne at Twickenham in a record-breaking advance to the final. It was a gruesome day for a proud rugby club. And it did not happen again. It was different here – the Stade Geoffroy Guichard being anything but the home of the game in England.
In the strange ways of deciding what is a semi-neutral semi, the game came here to the footballing city of Saint Etienne. It is rugby city now, made so by the impassioned 41,500 who came over the Massif Central from Clermont-Ferrand – from one industrial city to another. The Clermont faithful made this a desperately difficult place for a visiting team. The crowd was a factor; they were brilliant.
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