Fanning gives Hughes a Leinster name to remember

Wasps forward Nathan Hughes left himself a hostage to fortune last week when he told a local newspaper that he didn’t know a single Leinster player.

Sure enough, Leinster put the Fijian in his place by claiming four points in this Champions Cup encounter although Hughes won’t have been the only one left puzzled by the name of Leinster’s two-try hero.

Darragh Fanning spent most of his 20s flitting between AIL rugby and semi-pro stuff in Australia, but he franked an amazing upturn in his fortunes last night by claiming two touch downs on what was his European debut.