Zebo happy to share the limelight

AS entrances go, Simon Zebo could barely have made a better impression if he had been wearing top hat and tails.

A Heineken Cup hat-trick of tries in just his fourth appearance in the competition is quite the introduction and Zebo has now let the rest of Europe in on Munster’s best-kept secret.

Zebo has long been earmarked by the Munster coaches to do something special in the province’s red jersey, it was just a matter of when the Cork Constitution winger would get his opportunity. Doug Howlett’s season-ending injury in away win over Castres in round two presented the 21-year-old with his chance and after an encouraging Heineken Cup debut at Scarlets in the following round, the deceptively quick wing has kept his place in Tony McGahan’s line-up and steadily grown into his new role despite the backline he joined coming under pressure for the try-scoring opportunities it had been wasting.