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Nick Cain: Sorry, Saracens, but you weren’t the first

The attempts by Saracens to rebrand themselves this week as “The Original Club of North London” extends poetic licence beyond the borders of credibility.
Saracens celebrate winning the Champions Cup in 2019

The attempts by Saracens to rebrand themselves this week as “The Original Club of North London” extends poetic licence beyond the borders of credibility.

While Saracens were founded a few years before the round-ballers of Arsenal and Spurs, their foundation date of 1876 is almost a decade later than Wasps FC, in 1867 (in Hampstead/Primrose Hill), who were by some distance the more illustrious of the two north London clubs until Nigel Wray’s multi-millions started to transform Sarries’ fortunes 20 years ago.
The Wasps professional group’s recent rocky road to receivership has been well-docum...

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