As mid-table clashes go, this was never likely to be obscure, given it involved the past two champions of England at the Premiership’s biggest stadium. But then the news broke the day before that the erstwhile England captain, Owen Farrell, may be mulling over a move to France. That was the end of any obscurity.
Leicester and Saracens finished the afternoon as they were, muscling it out in seventh and sixth respectively, but the Tigers’ win closes the gap between the pair to two points – in keeping with the theme of yet another impossibly tight Premiership. Leicester are seventh, but they are a mere 10 points off first place and three off the top four.
