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It’s the big one – Glasgow V Borders Friday 6th December 2006


Interpro rugby continues this weekend, and Glasgow host the Borders. This issure to be at most the third most important Magners League game of the weekend. This must be, oh, the 8th time these two giants of the game have locked horns down through the years and the rivalry is intense. There is nothing going on in Ireland this weekend to compare. Ulster travel to Connacht to try and regain some pride after the shameful loss to Munster last Saturday night. Despite their best efforts they were denied their justified win by a cheating homer ofHighland proportions. In the other game of the weekend Munster hitch up the haywagon, throw up a few kitchen chairs, for comfort; throw the babby and an open can of dog food into the shed and make the big trip up to the shmoke for the beating that awaits them at the hands of the imperious lords of European rugby.

The intensity of the rivalry that these matches engender, well the first two anyway, is phenomenal. Check out the many rugby message boards and you will see just how much the respective fan bases are looking forward to this weekend –think The Boks v The All Blacks; think England V Germany; think Celtic v Rangersand you’d be wasting your time. There hasn’t even been one supporter from anyof the four teams on any forum talking about what is happening this weekend.

Everyone is looking to Dublin (naturally, as it’s the most affluent place in theworld – ref: Fortune Magazine every week for the last 6 years). Munster returnto the scene of their most corrupt victory in their history when they bought their HEC semi-final victory over the just Princes with bungs of turnip filled envelopes that must have reached to the very top of the European administrative hierarchy. But Leinster aren’t bitter, they accepted this cruel episode of cheating and moved on. Just look at the philosophical nature of their passionate yet respectful fans. They are holding out their welcoming arms and looking forward to once again hosting their ignorant (and I use the word in the kindest way possible) countrymen in what is sure to be an imposing victory for the Mighty Men in Blue.