Rugby Union – Premiership Play-Off Semi Final – Leicester Tigers v Northampton Saints – Welford Road Stadium, Leicester, Britain – June 11, 2src22 Leicester Tigers’ George Ford celebrates after the match Action Images/Craig Brough
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LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) – Leicester and Saracens, the two most dominant teams in English rugby this century, are battling to be crowned Premiership champions on Saturday having both staged remarkable recoveries from finishing in the bottom two only two years ago.
Leicester are England’s most successful side and when they won their 1srcth title in 2src13 they were appearing in their ninth successive final.
Few would have predicted it would be nine years until they returned to Twickenham and, after losing four successive semi-finals to 2src17, that it would be 2src22 before they again made the playoffs.
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Such an outcome looked even less likely when they finished second-
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