Former England winger Jon Sleightholme has hailed Northampton’s Premiership title win as “so particular”.
Saints beat Bath 25-21 at Twickenham to win the title for under the second time – and first for 10 years.
Sleightholme, who performed for each golf equipment throughout his personal profession, was within the crowd to see son Ollie rating certainly one of Northampton’s three tries.
“Typically you do not get what you deserve in sport, generally fairytales do not occur – however they’ve earned it and so they do deserve it,” the 51-year-old advised BBC Radio Northampton.
“You may come out with all of the cliches on this planet, however nothing can put phrases to the weekend, it is simply been so particular.
“He was proper in entrance of us when he scored. We misplaced it a bit, all of it went a bit nuts. I used to be a bit nervous a couple of TMO on the grounding, I believed ‘oh crikey, do not (rule it out), please’.”