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RUGBY/Leinster v Munster:SKIN AND hair will surely fly and, most likely, there will be blood. Even if pitched against each other in a car park in front of the proverbial two men and a dog and tossed a balloon, these two would long since have gone hammer and tongs, but now everyone has bought into the Leinster-Munster zeitgeist and an expectant full house will be licking their lips come tea-time.
Given the choice, both the European champions and the equally under-cooked Magners League champions would exchange a defeat this evening for a win next week from tricky assignments against England’s most in-form Heineken Cup entrants, London Irish and Northampton. Yet that won’t matter a whit once the first seismic hits go in, as no fixture offers more in the way of bragging rights. This, after all, is a meeting of two sides who have won three of the last four Heineken Cups. It is a meeting of Euro superpowers. And both know how much it means to their supporters.
