After a dozen years of amazing memories and mammoth effort, it was best that the end, when it came, was emphatic, leaving no room for ifs, buts or maybes.
Jonny Wilkinson and his fellow “mercenaries” dismantled what was once Europe’s most resilient ‘club’ side with eerie ease in Toulon on Sunday, ejecting Munster from the Heineken Cup before the quarter-finals for the first time since 1997-98.
After a dozen years of amazing memories and mammoth effort, it was best that the end, when it came, was emphatic, leaving no room for ifs, buts or maybes.
Jonny Wilkinson and his fellow “mercenaries” dismantled what was once Europe’s most resilient ‘club’ side with eerie ease in Toulon on Sunday, ejecting Munster from the Heineken Cup before the quarter-finals for the first time since 1997-98.
“How did they get into a situation where there’s more talent on the bench for Leinster than there is on the pitch for Munster?” wondered Tom McGurk impatiently after RTÉ aired the lowlights, oblivious to the obvious answer.
