as the Irish contingent in the Millennium Stadium press box rose in uproar it was tempting to applaud quietly.
In an act of outrageous audacity, perpetrated in view of half the stadium but not, apparently, any of the officials, the Leicester Tigers openside had knocked the ball out of Peter Stringer's hands as he prepared to put in to a scrum in a superb attacking situation. In doing so he knocked the Heineken Cup out of Munster's reach.
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