Saracens captain Ernst Joubert and Leicester skipper Geordan Murphy pose with the Guinness Premiership silverware
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The Guinness Premiership final at Twickenham on Saturday evening will surely reshape some myths according to the Daily Telegraph's Mick Cleary.
"Leicester can play and Saracens can operate without Venter. On that premise alone the sell-out crowd of 81,600 will have value for money. There is an understated zest in the game of defending champions, Leicester, as well as a deep-rooted sense of solidarity that makes Saracens a potent threat.
"Indeed the Tigers, second highest try-scorers in the Premiership, will have to get across the try-line if they are to match the scoring prowess of in-form opponents while Saracens might actually welcome the sense of grievance generated by the Venter affair to stoke the fires that bit more.
"Saracens’ belief in the collective is not contrived or recently acquired. Venter’s greatest achievement has been in establishing a hard-edged identity at a club renowned for flaky transience. They could be Leicester in black. Top teams need talent for sure, but they also need cussedness. They need to be chippy, defiant and not give a tinker’s cuss what others think of them. That has always been the Leicester way. Now it is that of Saracens, too."
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