Quiet and calm Mark McCall provides the backbone for sustained Saracens success | Gerard Meagher

With a second successive Champions Cup win in the bag, and two wins from a third consecutive Premiership title, those who know him best reveal Mark McCall’s role in Sarries’ remarkable riseWhen Mark McCall agreed to join Saracens in 2009, Brendan Venter had a word of advice for his new first‑team coach. “Smally, you’re going to have to buckle up because it’s going be a hell of ride,” he said. The rest of the conversation is harder to recollect for Venter, who chuckles as he recalls the killer line, but Edward Griffiths, chief executive at the time, remembers well his first encounter with McCal…