Exiles' win staves of relegation threat

Mark Mapletoft was the star of the relegation show as he inspired Conor O'Shea's London Irish to a victory which preserved their Zurich Premiership status and left trouble torn Bristol Shoguns on the bottom of the table.

Mapletoft, the 31-year-old bottle blond with one England cap to his name, fully justified his selection in place of regular fly-half Barry Everitt in the closing weeks of the relegation dogfight.