La Rochelle became the fifth team to win back-to-back European Champions Cups when they clawed back a 17-point deficit to beat Leinster 27-26 in the final.
Leinster looked as if they have been waiting a year for a freezing dollop of revenge against the La Rochelle side that denied them in last season’s Champions Cup final. If there is such a thing as an art of aggression we were privileged to witness the Irish side batter the reigning champions into what appeared to be a hopeless oblivion; 17-0 behind and barely a dozen minutes on the clock.
You’d have been forgiven if, by the 12th minute of Saturday’s Champions Cup final between Leinster and La Rochelle, you’d turned over to Garden Rescue or