But both incidents went unnoticed
But both incidents went unnoticed.Little wonder that at the end he admitted: " I am sore all over - neck, shoulders, face, hips, knees, ankles and toes. The ball went dead, but the referee Joel Jutge, of France, clearly confused, ruled a scrum from where the kick was taken rather than giving Leicester a 22m drop-out.Naturally enough Henson was never given a great deal of space or time, but he has a knack of uncovering gaps or parting defences in a nanosecond of blistering pace. Danger over."I don't know what I was thinking," said Henson, who has spent the best part of six months on the sidelines with a nagging groin injury "I messed it up But I'll get it out of my system It was my first rugby for five and a half months. And I only got back into full training last week."As glaring a mistake as it was, Henson was soon making up for it with a classy reverse pass to Sonny Parker, who cut a cute angle to open up the Leicester defence for the Ospreys' first try, in the 24th minute.Henson made numerous other breaks and put in some telling kicks including an attempted drop goal from 60 metres. In the third minute the Ospreys centre broke clear with a devastating change of pace, sliced out towards the right wing and looked certain to score. Then, inexplicably, the silver-booted darling of Wales stepped off his right foot, straight into the arms of the waiting Leicester defence. The smile might be on the face of the Tigers for now, but that could quickly turn to a grimace when these two sides meet in Swansea next Sunday. The long-awaited presence of Gavin Henson could not stop Leicester from establishing a two-point lead at the top of Pool Three, but it could have been different if Henson had not been so ring rusty.
But Pringle arrived in a daze, his face splattered with blood. He was replaced by Alasdair Strokosch and taken to hospital, though no explanation for his condition has been forthcoming. Toulouse had to rely on the multi-talented Fr?ric Michalak to save them from an embarrassing defeat. The French giants, who became the first club to lift the trophy three times when they beat Stade Fran?s here last May, were in all sorts of bother against a resurgent Edinburgh side who recovered splendidly after a poor first half.Toulouse appeared unruffled by the 23rd-minute departure of their injured scrum-half Jean-Baptiste Elissalde, bringing on Jean-Fr?ric Dubois and moving Michalak to No 9. Although Dubois is a tidy operator at outside-half, he is unable to offer the control of Michalak.
Even so, two penalties by Michalak, one from Elissalde and a well-taken try by Vincent Clerc meant Toulouse were cruising towards the break.Then Edinburgh struck back. With half-time beckoning, the Gunners laid siege to the Toulouse line. At first it looked as if the visiting forwards had it covered, but Mike Blair sniped around the open-side of the rolling maul for an unexpected try, which Chris Paterson converted. Emboldened, Edinburgh made all the running in the third quarter.
