Mick Cleary reflects on Leinster's Heineken Cup triumph and the 'level playing field' debate in The Daily Telegraph.
"A game too far? No, half a game too far. But the drop-off was immediate and telling. We all rushed to acclaim this as the greatest of all Heineken Cup finals.
"Yes, we did have the rolling back of the stone by Leinster as they rose from the seeming dead. And, yes, in the all-consuming play of fly-half Jonathan Sexton we had an individual performance to rank with the finest that there has been.
"But the contest, which has appeared to be Northampton’s by half-time, was over by the hour mark. There was little drama in the eventual outcome, no late shifts in the scoreboard, no real uncertainty. The turn-around was that swift, that emphatic and that decisive."
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