Gary Longwell: “Fabien Pelous was a giant and he yelled in my face ‘it’s over’. It was for him”

Over 20 years have now elapsed since Ulster’s last great rugby odyssey began. It climaxed on a crisp, late January afternoon in 1999 in the creaking old Lansdowne Road stadium where they became the first Irish province to lift the European crown with a 21-6 victory over Colomiers.