Newcastle 23-25 Saracens | Premiership match report

Newcastle 23-25 SaracensJust the three tries for Saracens this week. Seven days on from their 11-try, 78-7 slaughter of London Welsh on home ground, Mark McCall’s men found Newcastle a tougher festive-time nut to crack on Tyneside. Considerably tougher. Indeed, had Juan Pablo Socino, Newcastle’s chunky Argentine inside-centre, not pushed a last-gasp conversion attempt across the face of the posts and wide of the far upright, Dean Richards’ Falcons would have snatched an unlikely draw after what had looked like a futile fightback.As it was, though, tries by Neil de Kock, Nick Tompkins and Chris…