Sale 20-29 Bath | Premiership match report

Sale 20-29 BathGeorge Ford, the 21-year-old fly-half who missed Englands summer tour to New Zealand to get his shoulder repaired, on Saturday restored his position in what passes as the England pecking order, setting up both tries and shading the head-to-head contest with one of the No10s who did fly south, Danny Cipriani.Ford engineered the first try in under a minute of the new season, then when Sale looked like stealing the game, having roughhoused their No8 Mark Easter over to take the lead for the first time with 16 minutes to go, settled things with a shimmy opening Semesa Rokodugunis ro…