Living the dream

At half-time in the Heineken Cup final against Biarritz last May, Munster were 17-10 up. In this extract from Munster Our Road To Glory by Alan English, the men in red give a blow by blow account of the second half.

Anthony Foley: We had a perfect start to the second half. Shaun Payne put up a garryowen and charged after it. Thion caught it but we piled into him and they ended up giving away a penalty.

Ronan O’Gara: That was the one time I thought about it — because I knew how significant it was. I lost concentration for about 10 seconds, so I had to just snap out of it and forget about the importance of the kick, forget about the scoreboard. I hit it well again and we were 10 points in front, 20-10.