By NEALE HARVEY
NOT for the first time this season, Sale supremo Steve Diamond was left fuming at officialdom after a controversial late penalty decision cost his side the game.
With a tourniquet-tight contest balanced 14-13 in favour of the Sharks, referee Craig Maxwell-Keys adjudged that Tom Curry’s midfield challenge on Tom Dunn had not involved his arms, enabling Rhys Priestland to calmly hammer home a match-winning 45m kick.
It handed Bath their second successive victory to boost their top four chances, but left Diamond deeply unimpressed after he had watched his side fight bac...
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