Leicester Tigers secure play-off place with victory over Worcester

• Leicester Tigers 31-17 Worcester WarriorsLeicester needed to win to secure a place in the play-offs for the 12th consecutive year and if they could have picked their opponents, Worcester would not have been at the bottom of the list. The Warriors had lost their previous nine Premiership matches here and had not beaten the Tigers since 2008, but history took a while to repeat itself.Leicester were without the outside-half Freddie Burns, who has had surgery on the ankle he injured during last weekend’s Champions Cup defeat to Racing 92, while the England centre Manu Tuilagi was given the week …