PAUL REES VERDICT

Pressure: Richard Wigglesworth charges down Owen Farrell’s clearance to set up the second try

Owen Farrell reflected last week on a season that had seen him return from injury refreshed and rebooted, playing with an abandon he had not shown in his long career, taking risks rather than the safety route.
As Leicester plotted their tactics for yesterday’s final, minimising the impact of Farrell, arguably the Premiership’s most influential player in the final two months of the campaign, was central to it.
Gloucester’s head coach George Skivington noted a few months ...