Northampton 24 Saracens 29 match report: Visitors upset the odds to reach Premiership final

At the final whistle the Saracens players, some blood-soaked, some on their knees in exhaustion, punched the air as though they had just won the title.

There is no silverware for winning semi-finals of course, but in the moment it appeared as if the bitter pain of losing last year’s final to Northampton with the last play of the season had finally been lanced.

There was to be no fatal last-gasp concession by Saracens this time round, even if Stephen Myler’s fourth penalty in the final minute forced them once more to tackle themselves into the ground until Northampton were forced to conce…