Shaun Edwards stood in front of a post-match microphone in Dublin and hailed the greatest game of rugby he had seen in either code.
His team had just scored two injury-time tries to beat Munster at the home of Irish rugby and reach their first European Cup final.
The team in question was Wasps.
“I won’t be rubbing that off my video in a hurry,” the cross-code legend said. And we knew what he meant. Only, video players came and went. And so did Wasps.
Last week Harlequins won an epic quarter-final away at Bordeaux. Observers labelled it the ‘greatest’ Champions Cup game ever played.
Wasps’ return
Life goes on without Wasps but, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of that famous day in the Irish capital, Kenny Logan has revealed how close he believes his old club is to coming back from the dead.
Speaking exclusively to Planet Rugby, the former Scotland star declared: “There is a 70 per cent chance Wasps will return. I don’t see us not coming back to a really good level if things go to plan.
“Plenty of people want Wasps back. It seems we’ve had every league in the world ask ‘do you want to come back and play with us’ – including as a US franchise in Major League Rugby.”
Logan’s optimism is worthy of note not because he spent seven years playing for Wasps and is fronting its attempt to resurface in the Sevenoaks district of Kent.
Rather because this is a man who does not believe in lost causes.
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Logan, capped 70 times by Scotland, has learned to thrive with severe dyslexia and overcame prostate cancer.
Inspired by his great, late pal Doddle Weir, he now works tirelessly to generate funds to find a cure for motor neurone disease.
“It’s a part of my make-up to prove people wrong,” says the husband of television presenter Gabby Logan. “I’ve been driven by an underdog mentality all my life.
“I have faced some major challenges. I only learned how to read and write when I was 30. I hid my dyslexia behind closed doors for years, not wanting to show any weakness. I now have my own sports marketing agency.”
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