Ian Whitten drives forward with the ball during Exeter Chiefs’ Champions Cup Semi-Final clash with Toulouse in 2020
Things just didn’t feel quite right on that September day in 2020 when Ian Whitten lined out against Toulouse.
Covid had already redrawn the contours of so much, and though rugby had returned a month earlier, it was to a very altered beat, with the previous season only now facing some form of completion while also being played out in empty stadia.