• Saracens 22-12 Harlequins
• England lock George Kruis also scores for SaracensThe Saracens’ chairman,Nigel Wray, used his programme notes to remind spectators the club’s domestic ground was only a few miles away. The leading club in England attracted a crowd 10 times larger than the one that turned up at Allianz Park the previous week for the European Champions quarter-final against Northampton. It was 4000 less than final year’s world record for a club game here but still 8000 more than the total league attendance this campaign at the domestic of the champions.
While Harlequins are looking at ways of broadening their trade and fitting self-sufficient, and Saracens remain reliant on their backers,vulnerable should investment suddenly be withdrawn. They may be losing money but they are winning matches, the Premiership’s standard bearers at their peak again after a Six Nations wobble.
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Source: theguardian.com