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Mon 01 Jan 2007Home instincts desert MunsterMunter 6 Leicester 13:The bottom line is Leicester physically beat Munster up at Thomond Park on Saturday, and it took a lot of hard swallowing. Unrelentingly, unerringly and unforgivingly, the Tigers gave a tacit lesson in how to take on Munster.Viewed from abroad, this was one of the most seismic wins in the history of the Heineken European Cup, and it brooked no argument.