Peter Jackson: This is not soccer! Putting the boot into rugby's penalty shoot-out

A golden goal or try would have been a more satisfactory way of finding a winner, one which would have given the 40,000-plus crowd a still longer run for their money.

Munster's Ben Healy takes his first kick of the place kicking shoot out

At the last count, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo had missed 54 penalties between them at a combined career average of roughly one failure in every six attempts.

Their periodic fallibility from the spot puts Ben Healy in exalted company, not that the substitute out-half from Tipperary Town will draw any solace from that source or any other given his multiple misfortune during the longest match ever witnessed anywhere in Ireland.