Saracens salary-cap breach stamps an asterisk on a great club and the game | Robert Kitson

English rugby’s dominant club have blazed a trail across Europe and nurtured England internationals but was it all above board?How absolutely typical of rugby union. One minute the country is cheering on England in a World Cup final, the next it is reading that the pre-eminent club in the land have been on the fiddle. Not intentionally, say Saracens’ solicitors, but still enough to cop an unprecedented fine of £5.3m and a draconian 35-point deduction should their appeal, which is already under way, fall on stony ground. Related: Saracens docked 35 points and fined £5m for salary cap breach Wha…