Speaking in The Independent, Magnus Lund reveals that Biarritz, in spite of Saturday's heartbreaking Heineken Cup final defeat by Toulouse, are not about to give up on their dream of winning the biggest prize in European club rugby.
"The Heineken Cup is now the stuff of obsession for Biarritz, just as it became the be-all and end-all for Munster after two falls at the final hurdle. 'We have to dust ourselves down and go again,' said Magnus Lund, the flanker so completely forgotten by England that he can barely remember the last time they showed an interest in him.
'We still want this, and we want it badly. We're a small team as far as our supporter base is concerned, but we're a big team in heart and spirit. We have unfinished business here.'
"Lund was exhausted as he chewed the fat an hour or so after close of play, and well he might have been. In the thick of it from the very start and still setting about anyone in Toulouse colours at the last knockings, the former Sale back-rower's tackle count was in the stratosphere, just as it had been when he last played for his country, against the Springboks in the thin air of Pretoria almost three years ago.
"He had no reward then, either: England lost by 50 points in a game they knew they could not win. Saturday's defeat was not of the same magnitude, but as there was no inferiority complex about Biarritz and they came within a single score of glory, the frustration was doubly intense."
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