English club Saracens is being booted out of top-flight rugby union after rorting the salary cap for three seasons, during which they won two titles.
In one of the most spectacular downfalls in the history of club rugby, English and European champion Saracens will be relegated at the end of the season for breaching the salary-cap rules.England captain Owen Farrell is one of the stars for the north London club
Premiership Rugby, which runs the English top tier, said Saturday that Saracens would finish the current season before being dropped down to the second-level Championship. It remains unclear if those titles will remain in place or be stripped, as was the case when the Melbourne Storm were found to have rorted the NRL's salary cap for years, during which they won two premiership that were ultimately taken off them.
"I acknowledge the club has made errors in the past and we unreservedly apologise for those mistakes," Saracens' new chairman Neil Golding said in a statement released by Premiership Rugby.
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