Never-say-die Munster have the belief to play a winning hand against Saracens

Should we expect anything special from a team that started the Champions Cup campaign as 50-1 outsiders to upset a Saracens side widely regarded as one of the best club sides in the world?

If Leicester City had failed to last the pace in the run-in to last season’s English Premier League title race and been caught at the line by Tottenham we would not have thought any less of Claudio Ranieri’s side but praised their sterling effort to mix it with the big boys backed by their billionaire owners.

So too Connacht on their improbable run to the Guinness PRO12 title last season. No billionaire bosses stood in their way, of course, but their rise above clubs and provinces better financed and staffed to even reach the league play-offs in the last campaign would have been a cause for celebration even without the silverware that followed for Pat Lam, John Muldoon and company in Edinburgh that sunny May evening.