Saints edged a thriller at a sold-out Twickenham as Bath battled to the bitter end despite Beno Obano's early red card
Saints edged a thriller at a sold-out Twickenham as Bath battled to the bitter end despite Beno Obano's early red cardand their longer-running programme of rebuilding with English coaches led by Phil Dowson that edged a spectacularly marginal verdict in the Premiership final.
Bath will be utterly shattered at the brutal way the final played out, but also heartened at how they stayed in the contest.Alex Mitchell’s try on 72 minutes for Northampton, finishing off a half-break by Fraser Dingwall and a full one by George Hendy, was the decisive score but many in the 81,699 crowd must have expected Saints to have been assured of the win long before then.
Barbeary, one of the Bath’s best carriers, and an England hopeful at No 8 who has come through so much injury hell, simply cannot catch a break. His red card in the Champions Cup in January in a similar incident had cost him a In the 27-year life of the Premiership, as it was rebranded in 1997, only four matches have been won by a team taking a red card.
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