Leinster and Saracens hope to continue trend of European exhilaration

After a scarcely believable few nights of footballing drama, Europe’s two best rugby teams are this evening faced with the unenviable task of delivering a Heineken Champions Cup final to rival the beautiful game’s capacity to exhilarate.

Leinster and Saracens hope to continue trend of European exhilaration

After a scarcely believable few nights of footballing drama, Europe’s two best rugby teams are this evening faced with the unenviable task of delivering a Heineken Champions Cup final to rival the beautiful game’s capacity to exhilarate.

That may seem a harsh target to set Leinster and Saracens but in front of a sell-out, 51,000 attendance at St James’ Park, one of English football’s great arenas, these two European greats have the personnel to continue the thrills and spectacle to take their sport to another level tonight.

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