If anyone can, Munster can

IF ONLY we could have rugby like this every weekend.

So often when teams make the knockout stage of any sport, they lift the hand-brake, paralysed by a fear of failure.

To the unending credit of the eight teams in this fascinating series of Heineken Cup quarter-finals, each came to play. The end product saw games of genuine quality, all of which went to the wire. To that you can also add Connacht’s marvellous win in the Amlin Challenge Cup over Bourgoin which was also decided in the last minute and completed a brilliant weekend for Irish rugby.