Eddie Jones crosses the line questioning whether Johnny Sexton’s parents were concerned for their son’s well-being

Eddie Jones likes to call a spade ‘a bloody shovel, mate’, but there was a sense even he had gone too far in questioning whether Johnny Sexton’s parents were concerned for their son’s well-being after his latest head knock in the line of duty.

The England head coach does not hold back under any circumstances — after his comments on Sexton he would later go on to say his own players were too comfortable and pampered to succeed — but this was one time he surely should have been more circumspect.

What made it even more incongruous was that his comments about Sexton were not prompted.