WELL, THIS IS a little awkward. The official Pro12 site had a story earlier where it referred to the Ospreys as ‘two-time Pro12 winners’.
The Ospreys have actually won the competition, in all of its different guises, four times and a fan of the Welsh team brought this fact to the attention of the Pro12 twitter account. Then, things got a little uncomfortable.
The link in the Ospreys tweet is from the Pro12′s website where it says, of course, that the Welsh team have won four titles.
This is just branding gone mad on the Pro12′s part. Nobody would say that Liverpool have won four European Cups and one Champions League (well, maybe United fans would).
One major worry is that the history of the Heineken Cup might be thrown out after someone wins the European Rugby Champions Cup for the first time. Would Toulouse be five-time European champions or have won four Heineken Cups and one Champions Cup?
“The history of the Heineken Cup”
Surely that’s an oxymoron.
It’ll take a special occasion out of the European Rugby Champions Cup to get rid of the proud history of the Heineken Cup, because a bunch of arrogant so-sos got what they wanted.
To quote the Pro12 twitter:
“We know! Two PRO12 titles, 1 Magners League title and 1 Celtic League title, Congrats!”
If you’re breaking it down like that, they’re still wrong, they’ve won 1 Pro12 title, 2 Magners League titles and 1 Celtic League title. *face palm*
It could be that because the Ospreys had two of those wins before the Italians joined that those are classed as different tournaments.
How is that different to the old European Cup which only had actual champions in it and the Champions League which has more non champions than champions? As said in the article Liverpool have 5, not 4 and 1.
I’m not defending them, I’m simply trying to understand.