We should learn to love and admire Saracens - rugby's version of Millwall
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We should learn to love Saracens, a club with a Millwall-type reputation around the land, grudgingly admired but never taken to the bosom.
They have borne this disdain well, traded on it as per their footballing counterparts in East London, grown stronger together, a band of disparate types drawn from all manner of backgrounds.
Once again they are the English standard-bearers in Europe.
Once again they have scrapped and battled their way into the knockout stages, recovering from pool-stage set-backs in Limerick and Clermont to scuffle their way into the quarter-finals as the eighth see…
They have borne this disdain well, traded on it as per their footballing counterparts in East London, grown stronger together, a band of disparate types drawn from all manner of backgrounds.
Once again they are the English standard-bearers in Europe.
Once again they have scrapped and battled their way into the knockout stages, recovering from pool-stage set-backs in Limerick and Clermont to scuffle their way into the quarter-finals as the eighth see…