Stuart Hogg rescues Glasgow after Leinster fightback

Glasgow Warriors 22 Leinster 20
Even Gregor Townsend, the Glasgow Warriors head coach, admitted he could feel his heart pounding as his team won, lost and then won back their opening game of the Guinness PRO12 season against Leinster, the champions.

He had seen the best and worst of his players, and finally some magnificent never-say-die determination to retrieve a seemingly lost cause two minutes after the 80 minutes were up.

Even then, there was a moment of panic as Niko Matawalu, the Fiji scrum half, who can be inspirational but can also cause as many problems for his own team as the o…