Tigers crowned Premiership champions

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The seven-try Tigers were crowned champions in emphatic fashion, completing a league and cup double after lifting the EDF Energy trophy last month.

Victory over Heineken Cup final opponents Wasps at Twickenham on May 20 would see Leicester complete a remarkable hat-trick in head coach Pat Howard's final season before he returns home to Australia.

Gloucester, despite finishing top after the 22-game regular season, offered merely token resistance.

Alesana Tuilagi (2), skipper Martin Corry, scrum-half Frank Murphy, flankers Shane Jennings and Lewis Moody, plus fly-half Andy Goode, who also slotted three conversions and a penalty, all touched down for the in-form Tigers.

The west country club proved a crushing disappointment, seemingly in awe of the occasion as they were unable to unleash their exciting backs Ryan Lamb, Anthony Allen and James Simpson-Daniel.

But Leicester were in no mood to offer condolences, cruising home without seriously breaking sweat in front of a 59,000-strong crowd.

English rugby's play-off showpiece provided a fourth mismatch in five years - only Wasps' tense 2004 victory over Bath has proved remotely close - as Gloucester capitulated, with three Willie Walker penalties and a Lamb try sending them and their supporters home completely unfulfilled.