Donut Kings - The champions of Ireland

The Heineken Cup Semi-Final between Leinster v Munster was billed in Ireland as the biggest sports event of the year. The 2 best teams in Ireland competing for a place in the final for the European crown. Big stuff people. Tickets we being sold for over 500Euro a pop. The game was to be played at Lansdowne Rd on the Sunday 23^rd April. Now Harbott and Myself have been rather critical of the standard of footy over here, but were keen to watch the game in a pub some where. Lucky Steve’s boss actually likes him, and quite amazingly handed him 2 tickets for the east terrace……excuse me!!! . This guy is a massive supporter of Leinster ….but we no complain. Below is a view from out Dans flat window

So the night before we had the game, the lads were out in town, basically trying to sell these tickets for 600 each. Hey god loves a trier…haha. No takers, which was all good. So Sunday morning comes around and the boys are ready to go. But as so often happens with Donut, it can be infectious. Dalton gets a call from friend who also has 2 spare stand tickets Dalton wanted me to add, and rightly so, that the tickets he blagged were West stand seating. Were as ours were in the terrace, which had a closer feel to the pamplona bull run than a rugby ground. But was still bloody good. …looks like 4 of the lads are being treated. We headed to the local, and were greeted by dumb founded looks, and comments such as “How the fuck did you 4 Kiwi bastards get FREE tickets to THE game”……ah we know people.

The Video above is not mine, our seats are down the far right end. But just shows the atmosphere so well.

Incase you don’t know Munster have quite possibly the most madly loyal supporters in the world. Red everywhere. They also have a huge female following, even have special womens tight fitting rugby jumpers….top work Munster. Anyway, Game was not that flash. But atmosphere was insane, Munster winning easily. Then off to the Lansdowne rd Hotel for a rather extended Sunday session with the lads. Helped that this was the first day we had worn t-shirts in Ireland….good times.