The giant that is Trevor Leota was back drop to Munster European epic to beat them all

The last time Munster went to Dublin for a European Cup semi-final, they ended up being flattened by the fattest figure in the game.

Trevor Leota’s love of fast-food caused Wasps so much concern that they turned one of their coaches into a live-in minder with instructions to manage his diet during the fortnight before his club’s tie at Lansdowne Road on the last Sunday of April 2004.

The Samoan hooker’s weight had ballooned to more than 21 stone which, as overweight footballers of any code go, put him in the same ball-park as Wayne Shaw, the Sutton United reserve goalkeeper notorious for stuffing himself with a pie during their FA Cup tie against Arsenal in February.