Leo Cullen: ‘I’m glad we’re not playing Munster because it is very red out there’

Leinster head coach Leo Cullen took another look around the San Mames Stadium ahead of today’s Champions Cup final showdown with Racing 92 and experienced the uncomfortable feeling of a stadium decked out in red.

I came over here last week to look at the stadium and it is an amazing place,” Cullen said, before adding: “I’m glad we’re not playing Munster because it is very red out there.

Yet there are considerable parallels between the squad Cullen will send out into the San Mames today and the Athletic Bilbao team that calls this 53,289-capacity arena home.