By Simon LewisLeinster head coach Leo Cullen took another look around the San Mames Stadium ahead of today’s Champions Cup final showdown with Racing 92 and experienced the uncomfortable feeling of a stadium decked out in red. "I came over here last week to look at the stadium and it is an amazing place,” Cullen said, before adding: “I’m glad we’re not playing Munster because it is very red out there." Yet there are considerable parallels between the squad Cullen will send out into the San Mames today and the Athletic Bilbao team that calls this 53,289-capacity arena home. Cullen said he saw today’s meeting with Parisian side Racing as a contest between two clubs with very different approaches to player recruitment. “Very similar to ourselves in that we base a lot of things on homegrown players.

Source: Evening echo May 12, 2018 13:41 UTC