This looks like the best side Leinster have ever had. Time for them to prove it

As subplots swirl in the warm Marseille air, the ruck contest – and how it is refereed by Wayne Barnes - could well be the making and breaking of a mouth-watering finale

Once more unto the breach: Jonathan Sexton leads Leinster into Stade Velodrome on Friday afternoon,

Finals rarely match the hype but today’s Heineken Champions Cup decider would have to be an epic for the ages to capture the sense of anticipation, the setting and the subplots as Leinster and La Rochelle prepare to go at it in the south of France.

Marseille has not been an easy reach for either set of supporters with the distance involved exacerbated by the cost escalated, in part, by the influx of football fans into airports all over the country for the Champions League final later tonight in Paris.