Will Green recalls win over Toulouse: 'It was one of those days where everything we tried worked'

BRIGHTEST MEMORY: Shane Horgan scored for Leinster against Toulouse in 2006, a move Will Green played a part in. Picture: Remy Gabalda

It ended with a Friday night pasting on a muddy pitch in Cardiff Arms Park but Will Green looks back at his two years with Leinster and embraces them as a wonderful coda to a career that had, until then, been spent amassing silverware and golden memories at Wasps.

He was 31 when he shipped up in Dublin. A rare Englishman in Irish ranks, home for his young family was a quirky little muse house in Sandymount within walking distance of the strand.