SHOULD Leinster justify their No.1 seeding and reclaim the Champions’ Cup in Bilbao on Saturday, Isa Nacewa will find himself on a pedestal alongside Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
Not bad for a New Zealander whose Test career began one minute and ended the next. After a debut barely long enough to be called fleeting, for Fiji against Scotland during the 2003 World Cup in Sydney, the two-minute substitute called it quits.
That Nacewa is in position to become the first rugby player to start four winning Champions’ Cup finals is all the more unlikely given that he retired from the game...