Shalk Burger happy to have taken tough option as Saracens head to Leinster

A Champions Cup quarter-final at the Aviva Stadium is next up for the Saracens and former South Africa flankerSchalk Burger has a vineyard that sprawls over 180 hectares of Western Cape countryside waiting for him as soon as he decides to retire. Had he taken what he calls “the easy option” he would be winding down the clock right now and topping up the bank balance in Japan rather than preparing for a European quarter-final. But there is an unmistakable twinkle in his eye as he explains at Saracens’ sodden training ground that, with his 35th birthday only a couple of weeks away, he is due to…