O’Connell: Winning creates the legends

With a Grand Slam and two Heineken Cup successes on his resumé, Paul O’Connell is pretty much in the “been there, done that”, category of rugby players.

The Munster lock even has a British & Lions captaincy on the list, from the tour to South Africa last time out in 2009. Yet even that would be surpassed by experiencing a Test series victory over Australia next summer.

Being a Lion is one thing, however winning as a Lion is, O’Connell believes, what turns great players into rugby legends this side of the equator.