Once again, the French wizard calls the shots

PAUL REES

Is there anything Antoine Dupont cannot do? Drop a goal with his left foot from his own half, perhaps? Wrestle a scrum penalty from Frans Malherbe? No matter how improbable something appears, the Toulouse scrum-half is a player without frontiers, a phenomenon of his age as Gareth Edwards was in the 1970s.
As soon as Toulouse joined Leinster in the final by defeating Harlequins at the start of the month, the contest at scrum-half between Dupont and Jamison Gibson-Park, the catalysts of their sides, was highlighted as a game within a game that would go a long way to deciding the ou...

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