Munster didn’t merely win the apparently un-winnable; they won it, to borrow a bit of racing parlance, going away

Weekend takeaways from the European Champions Cup

Over the last 10 years pre-Covid, three clubs monopolised the Heineken Champions’ Cup: Leinster, Saracens, Toulon

Had he been in a different place at a different time, Johnny Sexton’s glaring strop over his premature exit in Paris would probably have cost him the captaincy

Another title title slips from the grasp of the team playing the best rugby

Of all the painful images from a Champions’ Cup weekend of double Irish capitulation, the most revealing centred on Leinster’s unmasking as the best team in Europe.