• Owen Farrell’s late penalty earns 27-24 victory• Gloucester’s loss in Toulouse means Sarries qualifyWhen he sat down to write the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde almost 135 years ago, Robert Louis Stevenson did not have rugby in mind. He would, even so, have appreciated this classic glimpse of Saracens’ current split personality: the indomitable winners who, for now, remain among Europe’s best sides alongside the serial salary cap cheats who have brought their sport into disrepute.
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On another day, in other circumstances, this would have been a hard‑earned victory against a top-class side which has secured the club a European quarter-final, albeit away from home at Leinster. Given the truly extraordinary backdrop, with the club’s relegation to the Championship next season now signed and sealed and the abyss beckoning, it was one of the more remarkable displays of backs‑to‑the-wall grit the tournament has ever known.