Payback time for Munster

LIFE, said Al Pacino, is a game of inches. So is rugby.

As Ronan O'Gara strains every last sinew to reach for Munster's first try in yesterday's Heineken Cup quarter-final, the sense that the tide had turned red at Welford Road was palpable.

Leicester's green machine found itself confronted by the full force of red redemption for last year's heartbreaking final loss.