Sale upset the odds to clinch their place in the Premiership playoffs with a dogged victory over Saracens, ensuring Owen Farrell’s final home match for his boyhood club ended on a miserable note. The upshot is that Saracens have been denied a home semi-final and, after being leapfrogged by Sale, they finish fourth and must now head to high-flying Northampton in the playoffs.
Sale will travel to Bath with considerable momentum after five straight wins but may do so without Manu Tuilagi, who limped off with a hamstring injury which could spell the end of his career in England. They did, however, go some way to avenging last season’s final defeat by raining on Farrell’s parade.
