The 100 or so flag-waving Frenchmen perhaps thought otherwise but, for the rest of the crowd inside Murrayfield, last night's Heineken Cup tie was as dispiriting as the meeting between these sides had been uplifting in this tournament last year.
The 100 or so flag-waving Frenchmen perhaps thought otherwise but, for the rest of the crowd inside Murrayfield, last night's Heineken Cup tie was as dispiriting as the meeting between these sides had been uplifting in this tournament last year.
Olly Barkley, the Racing Metro fly-half, looks to get the better of Edinburgh's Ben Atiga, left, and Ben Cairns in this game of “football†at Murrayfield. Picture: Getty
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Kevin Ferrie
Circumstances and conditions, both competitive and meteorological, had ensured that this encounter, played out in front of what was rather surprisingly recorded as 4598 people, was never going to be a rerun of that famous tie contested by these two teams over a year ago.
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