Leinster are still the fans’ favourites

PETER JACKSON compiles the numbers to reveal how many, or how few, watched Europe’s top leagues

Pride of Ireland: PRO14 champions Leinster rule the roost in putting bums on seats

Leinster are out on their own as the best-supported team in Europe, a fact which will make the stripping of their Champions’ Cup title all the harder to bear.
Just as Saracens superseded them by a unanimously thumping decision on Tyneside three weeks ago, so the margin of that victory has been reversed at the box-office over the course of the season. Outpointed twoto- one by the English champions, Le...

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