CHARLIE Hodgson last night booked Sale a home-tie in the semi-finals of the Premiership play-offs.

Another of his famous master-classes gave Sharks the upper hand in front of a packed Edgeley Park against what on paper could have been very tricky opponents.

On a night when Sale finished top of the Premiership, he kicked four penalties to open up the gap and then put the icing on the cake with a try which he converted himself.

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