The Premiership’s away zone trial was barely 12 minutes old when a member of the security staff felt the need to intervene. Perhaps he had taken exception to the dozens of schoolkids in the Gloucester section lambasting Saracens’ No 10, Fergus Burke, with: “You’re just a shit Owen Farrell.”
Maybe he did not appreciate the lyrical complexities of the evidently pre-rehearsed: “What do we think of Saracens? Shit!” Either way, the decision to trial away zones in two Premiership fixtures this month has polarised opinion and it is a safe bet which side of the fence the security staff member now sits.
