a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/Sh49bnQrOKI/AAAAAAAADDQ/sQQsB8jaP9U/s1600-h/lawes-punched.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/Sh49bnQrOKI/AAAAAAAADDQ/sQQsB8jaP9U/s400/lawes-punched.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340773752712673442" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"The European Challenge Cup final will be remembered as being one of the most fiercely confrontational matches of the season. The 15-3 win for Northampton Saints over Bourgoin was try-less, but was packed with action from start to finish. /spanbr /br /Early on in the match it looked as though Irish referee George Clancy was struggling to control matters as the fiery French side got frustrated with his decisions. Saints had expected the match to be physical, and they got exactly that as niggle crept in.br /br /Morgan Parra and Neil Best got themselves in a tussle shortly before halftime, resulting in Best receiving a messy looking black eye, and both players being shown yellow cards.br /br /Later in the match, about 2 mins after Saints replacement lock Courney Lawes put in a huge hit that a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2009/05/courtney-lawes-smashes-morgan-parra-in.html"injured scrumhalf Parra/a, Bourgoin