Wallace the heartbeat in Reds’ engine

FOR those in Thomond Park on yet another special night in Munster’s spell-binding association with the Heineken Cup, it was one of several special moments in a night of plenty, and not for the first time, David Wallace was at the heart of it.

Last Friday night, and for the second time in three years, Sale came to town with their flags flying high, hopes raised that finally, after a recent run of outstanding form, they might lower the colours of Munster, gain a huge measure of revenge for the humiliation three years ago.

In Munster there was a measure of trepidation, because as Sale were enjoying their spectacular run in the English Premiership, Munster were going through the horrors in the Magner’s League, with a loss to Connacht in Galway followed shortly by a drubbing in Thomond Park no less, to a revived Ulster.