Leicester's Louis Deacon and George Chuter lead the celebrations at the final whistle
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Writing in the Sunday Times, Stephen Jones rates Leicester Guinness Premiership Final victory over Saracens as "the greatest final of all time."
"Inside the last five minutes, Saracens took the most dramatic lead when Glen Jackson, who had piloted a team of delightful attacking skills with real precision, put Saracens 27-26 into the lead with a penalty from within easy range. Considering his legs must have been jelly, it may as well have been from 300m.
"All Saracens had to do to win their first title was take the kick-off, set it up and run down the clock. But, incredibly, Scott Hamilton came up with a desperate dash to catch the ball cleanly as it fell, and he ran on for the line. He picked up an amazing run by Danny Hipkiss, the Leicester centre who had just come on as replacement.
"Hipkiss hurtled into the last defenders, incredibly hurtled out the other side and scored to provoke probably the loudest noise that Twickenham has every heard — a combination of sheer, roaring delight from Leicester and agony from Saracens."
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