The Sporting Saturday
No doubt about the greatest sporting achievement yesterday – Northampton Saints’ monumental victory over Leinster in Dublin, 37-34 in the semi final of the Champions Cup.
Leinster field an international team and had previously put 52 points past Glasgow and 62 past Harlequins.
They are formidable but Saints matched them, hanging on by a margin of 3 points – at one point with only 13 players on the pitch.
Tommy Freeman scored a hat-rick and young tyro Henry Pollock added another.
Pollock might not make the Lions selection announced this Thursday as Welshman Morgan might be the only man from the Principality selected and he is a back row specialist too. Tommy Freeman will definitely be there and Finn Smith at fly half outshone San Prendergast.
The only problem was accessing the game as it was shown on Premier Sports, which I had discarded long ago. However Radio 5 Sports Extra covered it and the commentary did justice to a classic encounter.
