Awesome ’Cuddles’ cuts down Munster

Considering he had blown enough fuses in his time to put the lights out all over Limerick, Jamie Cudmore was always liable to leave Munster in a dark place.

By the end of a sobering night, the Theatre of Miracles had witnessed another – Clermont’s trigger-happy bruiser not only going the distance but negotiating it without once giving the referee cause to wag as little as a finger in his direction.

As soon as Munster ran out of time, about an hour after they had run out of ideas, one image stood out among a thousand others as truly a sight to behold.