Bone-crunching: Jacques Burger tackles Clermont’s Sitiveni Sivivatu

EVERYBODY will have their own favourite MOM performance in Europe but for me nothing comes close to Jacques Burger’s superhuman effort for Saracens against Clermont three years ago when Sarries thrashed the competition favourites 46-6 in the semi-final at Twickenham.
The match stats show that he made 27 tackles in 69 minutes before going off to a standing ovation which is impressive enough but stats don’t always tell the whole story. These days you seem to log a tackle every time you make contact with a...