Perpignan 6 London Wasps 34

Celtic Warriors 16 Perpignan 15

Irish international Trevor Brennan celebrated Toulouse’s second European title, and declared: “Winning this tournament is special.”

Perpignan and Toulouse contested the first all-French Heineken Cup final at a blustery Lansdowne Road.

IT wasn't so much an argument as a debate, but Toulouse coach Guy Noves certainly won on points.

THE staging of the Heineken Cup final at Lansdowne Road today may seem to be a most bizarre decision by the ERC committee, but as recently as last Wednesday, when Celtic played Porto in Spain in the UEFA Cup final, we saw its parallel in another sport.

STADE TOULOUSAIN captain Fabien Pelous believes his side has too much all-round strength to succumb to a fired-up Perpignan in tomorrow’s all-French European Cup final in Dublin.

MUNSTER’S dream of reaching the quarter-finals of the Heineken European Cup for the fifth year in succession lies in tatters after a bitterly disappointing performance and comprehensive defeat by Perpignan in the Stade Aime Giral on Saturday.

A BITTERLY cold wind swept through the Stade Aime Giral yesterday when the Munster squad visited the venue for today’s crunch Heineken Cup Pool 2 game against Perpignan (2pm).

PERPIGNAN captain Bernard Goutta believes his side are still capable of finishing top of their Heineken Cup pool.