Leicester stalwart Lewis Moody is aiming to end his career at Welford Road with victory in the Premiership final against Saracens. Michael Aylwin writes in The Guardian.
"You may expect a lengthy pause when you ask Lewis Moody to choose the highlight of his 14-year career with Leicester. Here is just some of what he might choose from – six Premiership-winning seasons, two Heineken Cup-winning seasons, an Anglo-Welsh Cup.
"But, no, the answer comes really quite quickly. "People are surprised that the memories that will always stick with me are the games like Munster away at Thomond Park [in 2007]," he says. "They'd never lost a European game at home, and we went there as underdogs and we took that crown away from them, at their home ground, in their last game."
"Of all the sun-kissed glories – and he goes for a dark, rainswept night in Limerick, buffeted on all sides by the winds, the fans and previously invincible opponents, where their achievement was nothing more or less than winning where no one else had won. It was Munster's 27th and last Heineken Cup game at the old Thomond Park – just one more win and the old fortress would have remained unviolated. But, no, what followed provides Moody with his fondest memory of his time at Leicester. Spoiling Munster's party, "at their home ground, in their last game".
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