Robbie Henshaw: Michael Jordan, The Last Dance and making it count

Jordan’s devotion to winning wasn’t always the healthiest, but there is a single-minded stubbornness in all elite sportspeople that allows them to go beyond the bounds of what is normally doable

Leinster's Robbie Henshaw in action against Toulouse. He played 64 minutes of the game despite being in bed with flu 48 hours earlier. ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

A thought occurred to Robbie Henshaw as he lay in bed with a flu two days out from the Heineken Champions Cup semi-final against Toulouse.

The Leinster centre had only just rewatched ‘The Last Dance’ documentary on Michael Jordan and what should pop into his mind but the episode which covered the great man’s legendary ‘Flu Game’ against the Utah Jazz.