The Irish side have a simple mission – overturn Leicester's enviable record in finals, and prove the doubters wrong. Robert Kitson writes in the Guardian.
"Where is Carol Vorderman when you need her? Only a consonant here and an extra vowel there separates Leicester and Leinster on paper and today's Heineken Cup final could be a similarly close call on the Murrayfield scoreboard. Brace yourself for an intensely physical game of Scrabble, a battle of wits and slender margins.
For Leinster it is also another high-profile chance to brandish two fingers at those who have typecast them, among other things, as "ladyboys" and "serial chokers". The former Irish international lock Neil Francis was even moved to describe them in print as "spiritually bankrupt" before their quarter-final against Harlequins, since when the squad have proved to be anything but. A first European crown, after too many."
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