Bradley's Edinburgh race to record ticket sales

Rugby: Edinburgh’s Heineken Cup quarter-final with Toulouse is set to be the biggest game in Scottish club rugby history

Rugby:Edinburgh's Heineken Cup quarter-final with Toulouse is set to be the biggest game in Scottish club rugby history.More than 20,000 tickets have been sold for the April 7th encounter at Murrayfield with the four-time European champions as the Michael Bradley coached Edinburgh bid to advance to the last four of the tournament.

The previous record for a Scottish club fixture was 17,174 for Edinburgh’s 2003 Celtic Cup final against Ulster. Edinburgh chief executive Craig Docherty said: “The rush for tickets in this past week has been extraordinary.

“This is now undeniably the biggest club rugby match in Scottish history and we need to pull on every available resource, none more so than the power of the crowd, as we take on Toulouse for a place in the semi-finals.”