Mark McCall revealed Owen Farrell was hopeful of making Saracens’ 56-27 rout of Glasgow less than an hour before kick-off despite the imminent birth of his first child. Munster await in the Heineken Champions Cup semi-finals after the Warriors were crushed at Allianz Park by a Saracens team missing their playmaker-in-chief, who was in hospital with his wife Georgie. As the 3.15pm kick-off approached, Farrell called McCall to tell him he still had every intention of playing. At half eight this morning he was pretty confident it would all happen, but it didn’t,” the Saracens boss said. “To beat a team by 57 points in a European quarter-final says you’re not a bad team.

Source: The Irish Times March 31, 2019 15:45 UTC