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LEICESTER TIGERS v BRIVE
T IGE R S TA L K
20 YEARS ON This season marks a very special anniversary in club history.
It is widely acknowledged as the greatest day in the club’s history, and now 20 years on, there are plans to celebrate in the company of the men who made it happen. Back in May 2001, Leicester Tigers went to Paris and beat Stade Français in their own city to win the Heineken European Cup for the first time.
It is an odyssey which began with a run all the way to the final at the first attempt in 1997 before defeat by Brive and which featured its ups and downs before the amazing scenes in the French capital and, of course, the retention of the title of European champions with victory over Munster in Cardiff a year later.
