Gary Longwell: “Fabien Pelous was a giant and he yelled in my face ‘it’s over’. It was for him”

By Jim Stokes

Over 20 years have now elapsed since Ulster’s last great rugby odyssey began. It climaxed on a crisp, late January afternoon in 1999 in the creaking old Lansdowne Road stadium where they became the first Irish province to lift the European crown with a 21-6 victory over Colomiers.