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The infamous Hand of Back incident of 2002
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SX8BBkZiPQI/AAAAAAAACuk/Zil79F3JeTw/s1600-h/neil-back-hand-2002.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SX8BBkZiPQI/AAAAAAAACuk/Zil79F3JeTw/s400/neil-back-hand-2002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295952813273267458" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"The 2002 Heineken Cup Final will be remembered as a match that ended in a heap of controversy as an incident took place that tarnished a players reputation with Munster supporters for possibly the rest of time. /spanbr /br /It was Munster up against the Leicester Tigers in the show piece of Northern Hemisphere rugby, with Leicester leading 15-9 with time on the clock virtually up.br /br /Munster had one last chance of an attack, with a scrum deep in the opposition half. As Peter Stringer went to put the ball in, the referee was unsighted, which led to Leicester flanker Neil Back illegally slapping the ball back onto the safety of his side of the scrum.br /br /It caused the turnover, which resulted in the game coming to an end shortly afterwards, and Leicester winning the Heineken Cup.br /br /Leicester boss Dean Richards saw nothing wrong or illegal about what he
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