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By Mick Cleary, Rugby Union Correspondent Outnumbered: Tom Croft and team-mates go on the charge as Ryan Jones hangs on grimly Photo: GETTY IMAGES Ospreys somehow managed to cast a dark shadow across Leicester’s sunny European uplands in the closing stages of this Pool Three encounter, only for the storm clouds to roll away in a frantic finale and blue-sky thinking to reappear across the East Midlands. Leicester’s dream of a record-equalling third Heineken Cup is still alive – just. Leicester succeeding in turning over an Ospreys five-metre scrum under their own posts with two minutes remaining. A score then would have been a calamity. And a travesty. The sighs of relief from the crowd could be heard halfway around the country. What a cock-up it would have been. Leicester were so much the better side in the first half that a... [read full story]
