Can Contepomi handle the heat?

IT’S HERE. In a few hours Munster and Leinster take to the field in Croke Park, and the waiting will be over.

To steal a line from Casablanca, is that cannon fire or my heart pounding?

When almost 50,000 people crammed into Lansdowne Road for the Heineken Cup semi-final meeting of Munster and Leinster in 2006, the consensus was that this was as big as it could get. Fast forward three years, when incredibly a world record for a club game of more than 82,000 will flock to Croke Park for the latest European meeting of these great rivals.