Which side are you on? The romantics will be rooting for Exeter in this weekend’s Premiership final. The club which built their way quite brilliantly to the top. On and off the field, Exeter are role models for the rest of England. A brilliant coaching set-up, a brilliant academy; if they are not your favourite team, chances are they are your second.

Saracens do not engender such affection. There has been the South African connection through the years, the drudgery of endless territorial kicking and the “wolf pack” — the nightmare contrast to the Exeter fairytale. Yet, I will, of course, be supporting Saracens, despite a respect that overflows into pools of affection for their opponents.

But there is another side to Exeter, extreme in