You probably don’t need to have solved The Hound of the Baskervillles to conclude that Owen Farrell might just have been on the wrong end of some unseemly behaviour in the Saracens v Harlequins Gallagher Premiership playoff semi-final.
The clue wasn’t so much in the blood he spilled after a bumpy opening to the game at the StoneX Stadium.
Nor was it to be found in the episode that saw him become the victim of a head-on-head hit by Quins’ Jack Walker.
