For Eddie Butler to single out Neil Back is grossly unfair. What rule did he break? He did not handle the ball in the scrum. Stringer should have been penalised for not being at least one metre from the scrum. See laws - scrum 6 (a). There must have been many occasions in the match in which players broke the laws deliberately when they thought the ref wasn't looking. I'll bet Eddie Butler did so frequently.
J Smith
London EC1

Neil Back is a cheat. The studio panel all but gave him move-of-the-match award. One minute they're calling for yellow cards to be used to curb professional fouls, etc, but then it appears it's OK if it wins a match and is not seen by the officials.

Cheating it is, whether it's seen by the on-field officials or not. It did win the game for Leicester as it stopped a great scrummaging position for Munster who were well on top and had had a penalty near the line moments earlier. I'd love to have seen if they would have been able to accept a decision if it had been seen and the option of a penalty try was given. That would have been more than adequate a resolution to a cynical move.
David Kayll
Swansea

What a disappointment to read Dean Richards' comments following the Neil 'Diego' Back hand-on-the-ball incident. The incident was a clear case of cheating and should have been condemned, not defended by Richards. I watched the game with my two young children and had great difficulty in explaining the cynical justifications given by Richards and others. As a Munster supporter I thought that Leicester were the better team, but if winning to them means doing anything including cheating then they are welcome to the Heineken Cup.
Tom Bradley
London SW20