Leinster savour success while Saints suffer in defeat
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Steve James in the Sunday Telegraph delivers his verdict on Leinster's thrilling Heineken Cup final victory over Northampton in Cardiff.
"The scenes at the end told the story in graphic detail. Every Northampton player slumped to the ground. Many of them were in tears. The despondency was almost tangible. They were broken physically and mentally.
"There is losing, and then there is losing when you have been utterly dominant for half of the game. And Northampton had been utterly dominant. They had led 22-6 at the break. Every scrummage had been a car crash for the Irishmen. Even when Northampton’s prop Brian Mujati was sin-binned, a seven-man effort was far too much for them as they were trundled backwards for some 20m at an embarrassing rate of knots. At that stage of the first half, that Northampton could lose was thoroughly inconceivable."
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