Northampton 23-19 Leicester | Premiership match report

• Northampton 23-19 Leicester• Hartley’s red card puts his England future at riskThe east Midlands derby came at an appropriate time in the calendar. A fixture that has come to be associated with cards, yellow and red, yielded a sixth dismissal in four years when Dylan Hartley was ordered off for elbowing Matt Smith in the face. It is an encounter that never loses its heat no matter how cold the weather – and Northampton, never mind their captain’s loss of control, never melted.Leicester set out to niggle the Premiership leaders, led by their hooker Tom Youngs who lingered at every breakdown h…