Profligate Irish fall short in heartbreaking Edinburgh defeat

London Irish 18 Edinburgh 23

Heartbreak ensued for London Irish as they drove the ball over the Edinburgh
line with the last play of their European Challenge Cup quarter-final
yesterday.

They were sure they had got it to ground but endless video
replays provided no concrete evidence to support their case and they went
out of the competition in the hardest way possible.



“If they can’t see it, they can’t award it,” Glenn Delaney, the interim London
Irish head coach, said philosophically afterwards.

“I thought we were going
to score at the end, we were applying a huge amount of pr…