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?
