Summary

  • Full-time: Saracens 6-23 Toulon

  • Toulon become third team to retain title

  • Matt Giteau & Juan Smith tries for Toulon

  • Jonny Wilkinson adds 2 cons, DG & 2 pens

  • 2 Farrell penalties for Saracens

  1. GET INVOLVEDpublished at 16:15 British Summer Time 24 May 2014

    So then, who's going to win the 19th and last Heineken Cup final? Will Jonny sign off with back to back Heineken Cups? Will Saracens win their first ever Heineken Cup? Will it ever stop raining?

    Let me know your thoughts on Twitter using #bbcrugby or via text on 81111 - it wouldn't be the same without you.

  2. Postpublished at 16:14 British Summer Time 24 May 2014

    Nick Kennedy
    Former Toulon team-mate of Jonny Wilkinson

    "The way Matt Dawson talks about him, I don't see Jonny like that. I know Jonny as a very happy guy. Yes, he is intense. He works extremely hard, he's the hardest working rugby player I have ever known by some way.

    "I only spent a year with him but I know his favourite film, I know what he likes to eat. Maybe it was the relaxed French lifestyle that made him that way."

    More from Nick on Jonny and the Heineken Cup final on the BBC Radio 5 live podcasts and downloads page.

  3. Postpublished at 16:13 British Summer Time 24 May 2014

    Matt Dawson
    former England scrum-half on the excellence of Jonny Wilkinson

    "When Jonny had an average game, which he did, his average game was the equivalent to everybody else having a bad game. His standard was always a couple of notches above everyone else. There were more consistent players than Jonny but he was in a position where he was kicking points, getting headlines and making big moments.

    "He was the pin-up boy. We're quick to forget back in 2001, 2002 and 2003 that Jonny, just by his presence, negated the opposition's back row."

    Listen to Matt's in-depth interview about Jonny Wilkinson on the BBC Radio 5 live podcasts and downloads page.

  4. Postpublished at 16:12 British Summer Time 24 May 2014

    Matt Dawson
    former England scrum-half on the enigmatic Jonny Wilkinson

    England's Will Greenwood (L) celebrates with Jonny Wilkinson at the end of the 2003 Rugby World Cup final against AustraliaImage source, Getty Images

    "I knew Jonny on the field. We had a great understanding because we worked hard and he understood the players around him. But as far as knowing Jonny the person, I would have no idea on his favourite film, his favourite colour, what he likes to eat. I'd struggle to give you his middle name.

    "My best memory of Jonny is when the final whistle went at the 2003 World Cup final. He was bouncing around with his arms up looking for someone to genuinely shout and scream at and go 'yes, yes, yes, we've won the World Cup'. He turned round and saw Will Greenwood and I remember seeing them embrace. That's the only time I have seen Jonny off guard with his happiness."

    Listen to Matt's in-depth interview about Jonny Wilkinson on the BBC Radio 5 live podcasts and downloads page.

  5. Postpublished at 16:11 British Summer Time 24 May 2014

    Matt Dawson
    former England scrum-half on the first time he met Jonny Wilkinson

    "He was introduced to me as John in the late 90s. I was at the England team hotel and this blond haired lad came dancing up the stairs. They were young pups being thrown in and Jonny was the next one to be tested. He was very quiet. He had that shy, chin down look with puppy dog eyes.

    "My impressions of Jonny back then? It wasn't 'oh my goodness, who is this fella?'. He didn't have that in the early days."

    Listen to Matt's in-depth interview about Jonny Wilkinson on the BBC Radio 5 live podcasts and downloads page.

  6. Postpublished at 16:10 British Summer Time 24 May 2014

    Much attention will be focused on Jonny Wilkinson but as the man himself is first to admit, rugby is all about the team and you can be certain he's focusing on how to get Toulon over the line, rather than his own farewell to British shores.

    Fortunately friends and team-mates have been happy to talk about his impact, and Ben Dirs was moved to write Wilko an open letter after chatting to a few of them.

    "This is a bit tricky, writing to a man who provided me with so much joy but about whom I know so little. A man who rendered me uncharacteristically emotional and hopelessly drunk, unusually hopeful and boastful." Why not read the rest here?

  7. Text 81111published at 16:09 British Summer Time 24 May 2014

    Anglophone: Genuinely don't know who I want to win. Sarries as an English club should get the nod but I would love to see Jonny Wilkinson go out on a high.

    Justwords: These two sides have the potential to serve up a sublime match of rugby.

    Trytastic: Toulon have more all round fire power.

  8. Postpublished at 16:07 British Summer Time 24 May 2014

    Jonny Wilkinson holds aloft the Heineken Cup after Toulon's victory in the 2013 finalImage source, Getty Images

    The retiring Jonny Wilkinson has become not just an icon of rugby, but of English sport as well.

    A World Cup winner with England in 2003, he came back from a four-year injury nightmare to become the only man to score in two World Cup finals, and is the current European player of the year after guiding Toulon to Heineken Cup glory last year.

    His move to sunny Toulon from the rather chillier climes of Newcastle heralded a late-career flourish and he will be hoping to mark his last ever game on British soil by helping the French side become only the third team, after Leicester (in 2002) and Leinster (2012), to win the competition two years in a row.

  9. Postpublished at 16:04 British Summer Time 24 May 2014

    It's not just the tournament itself we will shortly be saying farewell to, with two former England captains set for the penultimate games of their career at the Millennium Stadium today.

    Jonny Wilkinson, he of the match-winning drop-goal in the 2003 World Cup final and now the main man at Toulon, will retire next Saturday after the French Top 14 final against Castres.

    Saracens captain and second row Steve Borthwick will do the same after the Londoners take on Northampton in the Premiership final the same day.

  10. ONE HOUR AND COUNTING...published at 15:56 British Summer Time 24 May 2014

    All good things must come to an end, and today we bid farewell to the Heineken Cup as champions Toulon take on Saracens in the sporting cathedral that is the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

    After 19 years, Europe's premier club competition is being kicked into touch, with the shiny new European Rugby Champions Cup taking its place from next season.

    The tournament has grown from a speculative punt early in the professional era to become a truly elite level tournament - let's hope it goes out with a bang.