2023-05-21 12:04:19
A few of the press this Sunday morning. South West, Sunday Independent, The Team
The French Sunday dailies hail the triumph of the Rochelais. On the Irish press side, it is “desolation”…
A full headline photo of Captain Alldritt and the iconic Sazy lifting the trophy, crossed out with a “Giants!» South West does not have too strong qualifiers to evoke the heroic triumph of the Maritimes, Saturday evening in Dublin:incredible Rochelais», «a monstrous second half»… The Dispatch of Sunday, she evokes in One of the “Unsinkable Rochelais».
The Team also puts the European champions on its front page. A photo of joy and a nice title: “Two starry eyes“. For the sports daily, this triumph is “a moment of eternity». «At the end of a match with a staggering scenario and a match of crazy intensity, the Rochelais, however off to a bad start, extinguished Leinster in Dublin (…) They have entered into the legend of the competition.»
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«A defeat that will hurt Leinster for a long time»
Obviously, the atmosphere is not the same on the Irish press side. The Irish Times evokes a promised success that Leinster has still let slip. “La Rochelle broke their hearts again.“Stressing that the Irish players have”not lacking in courage but in energy». «A defeat that will hurt Leinster for a long time», forecast The Independent.
The Irish Examiner speaks of a finalthriller“, of “great comeback“of the Rochelais”. “ Dream home final turned into desperation for Leinster“, continues the daily.
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The Sunday Independant preferred to open with a photo of Ronan O’Gara accompanied by his mother, both ecstatic after the final – “Glorious day for the O’Garas-, recalling the ancestral rivalry between the province of Munster, where the coach of Stade Rochelais spent a large part of his career, and that of Leinster. And don’t hesitate to talk about thedarkest day» («darkest day”) of the history of the province of Dublin.
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