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Published 15:04 22 Oct 2016 BST
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14-3 and Munster’s task was suddenly made awesomely difficult. Keith Earls, perhaps a touch too fired up, laid in a bit hit on Fraser Brown but was guilty of driving him towards the turf at a dangerous angle. As much as it pained referee Jerome Garces and just about everyone in the ground, Earls was shown a red card.
For the next 60 minutes, Munster would play with 14 men. That was never truly the case though. They were playing with the spirit of Foley driving them on and an urging, desperate crowd doing likewise.
Penalties and scrum shunts were cheered as loudly as scores but the Munster faithful soon had another one of those to celebrate. The excellent Scannell made a clean break up the left, stepped another Scot and timed a beautiful pass to Simon Zebo. The fullback did remarkably well to keep his feet out of touch and dot down under immense pressure.
A third video review but the same result each time – try followed by Bleyendaal conversion. 24-3 at the break and we finally caught our breath.
“Let’s grind them again Munster,” came a voice from the crowd.And so they did. Murray snapped and snarled at Henry Pyrgos. Zebo drove Sean Lamont out of touch. Dave Kilcoyne barked orders and Taute forced a turnover. Going into the final quarter, with weary legs starting to leave gaps, Rory Hughes almost got over in the corner but Bleyendaal and Zebo were not having it. Not today. Not if they could help it. Still, the Scots are no mugs and they flooded forward in the closing stages, rewarded by two late tries despite the immense efforts of Darren Sweetnam and Donnacha Ryan. Rather than end the game on the back foot, Munster rallied and were rewarded with a superb Rory Scannell try after mauling Warriors to their shaken core. Ian Keatley nailed his touchline conversion. Of course he did. Munster pride lived, and thrived, on truly memorable day at Thomond Park. Check out the latest episode of Football: Friday Live
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