Tommy Bowe suffered a knee injury in the closing stages of Ulster’s Heineken Cup defeat to Northampton Saints at Ravenhill last night.

OF ALL the rugby mementos Stephen Ferris picks up over the course of his career – and all indications are, on the evidence of the past month, there will be a fair few – nothing is likely to mean less to him than the Rugby World Cup cap that he was presented with at the outset of the tournament in Bordeaux in 2007.