O’Driscoll says win answers a lot of questions

EVEN for a player so experienced on the game’s biggest stages, Brian O’Driscoll had never played in a match quite like Saturday’s Heineken Cup final.

The turning around of a 22-6 half-time deficit to Northampton Saints for Leinster’s 33-22 victory would take some beating at any stage in any competition but in the showpiece event of the most prestigious club tournament in the northern hemisphere, there were no comparisons for the Ireland captain to make from his long career.

O’Driscoll admitted: “I think it makes the magnitude all the bigger because it was a Heineken Cup final.