Wasps 20, Northampton 16: Match report

There was to be no rolling back the stone this week, no coming back from the
dead, as Wasps withstood a desperate late assault from the champions to lay
early claim to one of the upsets of the season.

Saracens had trumped them in
the closing stages last weekend but Wasps were not going to be
sucker-punched again.




It was a gritty, gutsy, occasionally classy display from them, high-ended with
a virtuoso chip-and-gather try from Tom Varndell, their second try in three
minutes, midway through the second half.




They were superbly led by James Haskell, who is right back …