Leicester Tigers R.F.C.

Paris, May 2001. Austin Healey's incisive break, Leon Lloyd's immaculate finish and Tim Stimpson's accurate kicking confirmed the Tigers as the best in Europe. It has taken a long time to erase the memory of Brive in Cardiff, but Dean Richards has at last got the Tigers playing the kind of rugby that excites. Who would have thought that under a man best known for sticking the ball up his jumper and attempting to drive mauls the length of the pitch, Leicester would play the kind of expansive rugby that is the envy of Europe. Talents such as Geordan Murphy obviously help. Murphy is one of the most talented sportsmen I have ever seen and ...

Leicester Tigers, the now called 'Manchester United of Rugby' This is the name given by outsiders to the game who don't bother to point out they play the better code of rugby: rugby union. But Leicester have at the very least three hugely obvious differences from Manchester United: 1) Leicester Tigers don't have mounds and mounds of wealth, it's impossible because Union has only been professional for six years and it doesn't have an individual millionaire sponsor. The reason Leicester dominate the Zurich premiership in the way the way they do is because they didn't go for the quick fix when professionalism kicked in. (Unlike clubs ...

Leicester Tigers have been the dominant club in English rugby for most of the past decade. Through the transformation of the game to a professional status from the amateur game Leicester Tigers have been worthy winners of many trophies. Bath have always been the main challengers to the Tiger's crown but when the game turned professional Leicester got to grips with the changing ways of the game quickly and pulled away from the chasing clubs, in particular Bath. Leicester has always been a supporters and community orientated club and when the game went professional, unlike other clubs they did not rush off and buy the biggest stars, most of whom were ageing and came ...