No split loyalties as Murphy eyes title

GEORDAN MURPHY may have been born in Leinster but there will be no hint of split loyalties when he leads Leicester into battle in tomorrow’s Heineken Cup final.

The Tigers are chasing a league and European double and will equal Toulouse’s record of three Heineken Cup titles with victory over Michael Cheika’s first-time finalists at Murrayfield.

Murphy has been at Leicester since 1997. He featured in the Tigers’ back-to-back European triumphs in 2001 and 2002 and nothing would bring him greater pleasure than for Leicester to seal an historic European hat-trick.