Irish go on warpath to shock the Chiefs

By SAMUEL JACKSON

LONDON Irish have been promising a big result for some time – and yesterday they delivered, beating mighty Exeter Chiefs 33-21 at Sandy Park.
Their head coach Les Kiss denied this first win of the season – at the sixth attempt – was a shock, saying: “We have been really close recently without quite taking our chances. Today we did.”
Exeter boss Rob Baxter, who has seen his double Premiership champions and former kings of Europe lose three times this season to slump to sixth in the table, said: “It doesn’t feel like a blood and guts loss, it feels like a pretty poor l...

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