TV View: Rollercoaster of emotion ends on a low note for Leinster once again

Leinster's Ciarán Frawley reacts after a missing a drop goal late in normal time during the Investec Champions Cup final against Toulouse at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho

Fiona Coghlan forecast that “it could be a game for the ages”, and she wasn’t far off. A measure of the rollercoaster-ish nature of the contest was Donal’s co-commentary.Leinster 22 Toulouse 31 FT: Champions Cup final as it happened Jacqui didn’t help. Come the end of the day, would Leinster be “nearly men, chokers or champions”, she wondered. “They can become one of the greatest of all time – or perennial losers,” she added. So, no pressure.what he had learned from the last two Champions Cup finals. “Don’t lose,” he said. As learnings go, that’s hard to top. But for a fifth star, Leinster needed, well, a five-star performance, and in that first half, it was in or around a two.

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