Especially, playing in a league like the English Premiership which includes 38 league games, the Charity Shield, the FA Cup, the Worthington Cup and the Champions League.
He also won the FA Cup four times, the Premiership three times and the League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup once during his Arsenal career.
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When Farrell first moved to the Premiership from Super League giants Wigan, Saracens insisted his best position was at blind-side flanker.
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His Harlequins side are seventh in the Premiership with three league matches to go and the top six teams qualify for the Heineken Cup.
Leeds have struggled in previous seasons to attract the bright stars to West Yorkshire, which has proved to be a major factor in their yo-yoing between the Premiership and National League One.
The two clubs, respectively champions of the Magners League and the Guinness Premiership, have both made poor starts to their domestic campaigns but there was little sign of that in a cracking first 40 minutes at a packed Royal Dublin Showground.
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The Guinness Premiership leaders were taking on the Magners League basement side and the gulf in class was evident from the start.
Members of the Lions squad not still involved with their clubs in the Heineken Cup, the Guinness Premiership play-offs or the Magners League will head to the Spanish town of Grenada the week after next for some altitude training before heading to South Africa on 24 May.
Wilkinson, who has 70 caps and 1, 032 international points to his name, joins the exodus of English players who have left the Premiership to join the cash-rich French league which includes Riki Flutey, James Haskell, Tom Palmer and Iain Balshaw.
He has also looked after his body well, moving from the punishing, hectic pace of the English Premiership to the physically less-demanding Spanish league four years ago.
Saracens are the only other Aviva Premiership side holding a silence, the league has confirmed.
It was a performance that guaranteed that there will be a Premiership team in the Champions League final in Istanbul in May.
The Milton Keynes club, relegated from the Premiership in 2000 became the first team in the Nationwide league to be relegated or promoted.
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The Premiership is such a strange league.
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They then went on to win eight of their last nine league games as the Premiership title went back to Old Trafford for the eighth time.
Leicester, fifth in the league table, have four Premiership games left to qualify for the play-offs.
The West Yorkshire side will return to the Guinness Premiership next season after winning National League One.
Meanwhile, Liverpool's concentration in recent weeks appears to have been solely on the Champions League and Fulham secured their Premiership status by beating the Reds.
Bramley, one of the founder members in 1985, dropped out of the league in November after being refused permission to play their matches at the home of non-League soccer club Farsley Celtic and were replaced in the Northern Ford Premiership (NFP) by the reformed Sheffield Eagles.
Wenger's 2004 Premiership winning side remained unbeaten in the league all season.
Despite winning the English Premiership for a record 19th time last week and playing Barcelona May 28 in the Champions League final, the Glazer family is still under attack from tens of thousands of Red Devil fans for the way they have run the club.
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O'Driscoll believes the recent successes of Leinster, in winning the Magners League, and Munster (Heineken Cup), plus Eoin Reddan winning the Guinness Premiership final with Wasps, ensures Ireland will be confident going into the Wellington Test.
Promotion from the Championship would be determined via end-of-season play-offs involving two groups of four teams, drawn from the top eight in the league, culminating in a single winner, who would go up to the Premiership.
The win was Saracens' fifth in six league games and lifted them above Gloucester into fifth place in the Zurich Premiership.
With Sunderland having already secured their Premiership safety and Arsenal guaranteed third place in the Premier League, the game was very much an end-of-season affair.
Cole spent the best part of two seasons on loan at Bedford Blues, another club in National League One - the level below the Guinness Premiership - from 2006 to 2008.
For Arsenal and Manchester United, the Champions League is the ultimate prize, followed by the Premiership.
Now, with Birmingham ranked 16 in Barclays Premier League and looking like it will qualify for the lucrative Premiership next season, Yeung is once again pumping money into the team and increasing his stake.
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