FREE RUN AT REVENGE IN FINAL REBOOT

TOMMY FREEMAN is on a revenge mission in Bordeaux tomorrow - and aims to strike an early blow for the English ahead of the Six Nations.

- BY ADAM HATHAWAY

Freeman (top) lines up at centre for Northampton in the Champions Cup against holders Bordeaux-Begles, who beat Saints 28-20 last season in a Cardiff final that finished in a dust-up.

Henry Pollock was at the centre of an on-pitch scrap post-match and the subject of taunts from the French side on social media the day after.

Bordeaux-Begles, boasting France wings Louis Bielle-Biarrey and Damian Penaud (below), are 11-point favourites for this clash, but Saints revel in acting as gatecrashers as they showed by toppling Leinster in Dublin in last season's semifinals.