20 years ago: The day the course of European rugby history changed

The 2002 Heineken Cup final at a packed Millennium Stadium ticks into the final minute with Leicester clinging to a six-point lead but preparing desperately to defend a 5-metre Munster scrum in front of the posts...

SERIOUSLY?: Leicester's Neil Back is on the receiving end of Munster fury via Alan Quinlan in the closing stages of the 2002 Heineken Cup Final at the Millennium Stadium.

TWENTY years after Neil Back’s infamous sleight of hand did for Munster, Leicester Tigers are still looking for the trophy they won that summer’s afternoon in Cardiff.

While twenty years is a long stretch by any yardstick, Red Army veterans with long memories will take some convincing that it’s long enough in Leicester’s case for the Back-hander which sabotaged Munster’s final hope of the converted try they need to conquer Europe for the first time.