‘I think we’ll steal the trophy’

IF YOU are going to have a pop-star girlfriend, entertain ideas of launching a singing career and be a regular in the celebrity columns of national newspapers, you had better be a hell of a player.

Fortunately for Ben Foden, he is.

The Northampton Saints full-back heads into tomorrow’s Heineken Cup final against Leinster riding the crest of a wave after the finest season of his professional career, yet he is well aware it could end without a tangible reward. Leinster are the favourites due to their edge in experience, but Foden is firmly committed to the idea that the exuberance of youth will overcome that.