Saracens’ Mark McCall hungry to escape slump at expense of Leicester

Director of rugby wants seven-match losing streak ended in Premiership fixture against another top club suffering a slump in formSaracens were awarded the freedom of the borough of Barnet last week but there will be no civic reception for them in Leicester on Christmas Eve when they meet a team whose thirst for victory is almost as great.Saracens this decade supplanted Leicester as England’s most successful club but a graph that has largely been an upward curve since 2009, apart from a few blips, has fallen sharply in the last seven weeks and the European champions travel to Welford Road on a …