Black Pearl ready to shine as Toulouse on revenge mission

HE may be close on 33 but he is still presents a clear and present threat to Munster’s prospects of making it into a third Heineken Cup final.

For opponents, the downside of Emile Ntamack is that he is a major threat and today, at the Stadium de Toulouse, Anthony Horgan will have his work cut out to contain the Black Pearl of French rugby.

In the free-flowing days of the 1980s, the main man of French rugby was Serge Blanco, an 80-a-day smokes man who didn’t really give a damn about structures.