Brains trust: Stuart Lancaster

WHO is Teddy Iribaren? What is for sure is that if Leinster do not know the answer by the final whistle at the San Mames stadium in Bilbao on Saturday evening – with Racing’s replacement scrum-half nothing more than a match programme note – then almost certainly it will be their fans who are toasting a fourth European Cup title.
Iribaren faces the challenge of a lifetime as the likely stand-in for Maxime Machenaud, the Racing 92 and France scrum-half, who is acknowledged not just as their driving force, but also the source of their inspira...