Clash of styles in showpiece but a shared story of salary cap controversy

Bath and Saracens meet today in an intriguing Aviva Premiership final, but success could be tainted by off-field circumstances

The climax to the end of a brilliant season brings a brilliant final.

In
twinning Bath and Saracens, it also happens to combine the clubs most deeply
entwined in the Aviva Premiership’s tawdry salary cap scandal.

Well, there’s
a surprise, you might well say.

Indeed many are.

A personal feeling is that
it is hard not to feel for the players who have hauled themselves from
September’s first round to be still standing heroically at the final hurdle
fully i…