- ‘What we built is true and special,’ says Richard Wigglesworth
- Relegated Sarries inflicted Leinster’s first loss since 2019 final
Saracens may be down but they are far from out. The champions of England and Europe, who have been demoted to the Championship for next season, are determined to show their success in recent years was due to attitude, not to cheating the Premiership’s salary cap.
Saturday’s 25-17 European Champions Cup victory over Leinster at the Aviva Stadium earned them a semi-final on Saturday at Racing 92, whom they beat in the 2016 final, and a potential showdown next month with their fiercest critics, Exeter, whose chairman, Tony Rowe, said they should be stripped of their Premiership titles, claiming they were ill-gotten gains.
