Writing in The Telegraph, Will Greenwood salutes Toulouse's quiet man, the only question is, can you tell who it is yet?
"How many players from the Toulouse team can you name? Put the paper down, try to work them out, then carry on reading. I bet some names came more easily than others. The back three of Vincent Clerc, Clément Poitrenaud and Cédric Heymans would have rolled off your tongue. Yannick Jauzion would be mentioned in the first breath. Byron Kelleher and Jean-Baptiste Elissalde would have got called early on. In the forwards, Thierry Dusautoir, France's Grand Slam-winning captain, would be hard to forget. William Servat, perhaps the best hooker in the world right now, is a name most of us would recognise even if we couldn't place his face.
"But I would be willing to bet considerable sums of hard-earned cash that the blindside flanker for Toulouse never entered your mind. Even if I told you his name, you would probably have no idea who the hell he was and what he looked like. Which is a shame, because when Toulouse played in three consecutive finals from 2003 to 2005, and won two of them, he was there. When they lost to Munster in 2008 he was there as well. And when they face Biarritz, he will be there.
"His name is Jean Bouilhou and he is a Toulousain legend who is unknown by 99 per cent of rugby supporters. A one-club man, he has been at Toulouse since 1999. He is the rock which allows the Toulouse superstars to earn their plaudits and their sponsorship deals."
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