Leicester 19-10 SaracensFarrell heavily linked with move to Racing 92
As mid-table clashes go, this was never likely to be obscure, given it involved the last 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, might 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 two to one – in keeping with the theme of yet another impossibly tight Premiership. Leicester may be in seventh, but they are a mere 10 points off the first place and only three off the top four. There is not much room for error for them if they want to make the playoffs, but in the end they dispatched Saracens with some authority if a little less precision.