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The Scot looked back on Toulouse's last campaign in the Champions Cup and in particular the final with an incredible scenario against Leinster.
Blair Kinghorn has played dozens of high-level matches. Whether with the Scottish team (58 caps), with his former club Edinburgh (142 matches) and of course with Stade Toulousain (22 matches), the full-back has real experience in this area. But it was last year that he experienced the craziest meeting of his career, six months after joining the “red and black” club.
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It was in the Champions Cup and it was obviously the match against Leinster, in the final of the competition. A completely crazy scenario: 15-15 at the end of regulation time, an uncertain extension, a red card for the Stadistes and a courageous victory after a match of crazy intensity (22-31).
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For the 27-year-old Scotsman who was the official scorer for this match, it is an unforgettable memory, he who had never played in extra time: “I remember that afterwards I was very tired, s he laughs. We played for more than 100 minutes, that doesn't happen often. It was the first time I experienced that. I also remember the atmosphere at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. stadium was crazy and honestly, it was perhaps the best rugby match I've ever played: the atmosphere, the game, the scenario of the match, the intensity, it was crazy.”
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Overjoyed at the end of the match, images of Kinghorn riding a zebra (emblem of the main sponsor of the Champions Cup) went around the rugby world. Asked about this, Kinghorn explains with a burst of laughter that “the zebra is at the bottom of (his) garden”. A joke? Hard to say. But the Toulouse full-back is already looking forward to resuming competition, it will be Sunday December 8 against Ulster at Ernest-Wallon.
The full interview with Blair Kinghorn can be read here.
