Peter O’Mahony: ‘That game will be important to me when I retire’

“The doctor was running around making sure everyone was over 18 years old. There was only one of the lads in there who was 18 and he was thankful everyone else was over 19.”

Peter O'Mahony of Munster before the Heineken Champions Cup Pool B match between Wasps and Munster at Coventry Building Society Arena in Coventry, England. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Peter O’Mahony has urged his Munster squad not to lose sight of the bigger picture of Heineken Champions Cup qualification for the knockout rounds in the wake of an away win at Wasps that has already gone down as a victory for the ages.

There was a moment in the build-up on Sunday to what would become one of Munster’s greatest European triumphs that captain O’Mahony sat in the visitors’ dressing room at Coventry Building Society Arena and wondered if he was in some sort of fever dream as team doctor Jamie Kearns made inquiries of a number of soon-to-be debutants as to their dates of birth.