Peter Jackson: Nobody dares to rough up Father Time quite like The Marathon Man
Leinster's Johnny Sexton celebrates Josh van der Flier’s try. Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo
Long after almost all his contemporaries ran out of steam and gave up the ghost, Johnny Sexton keeps climbing every mountain in European rugby.
Nobody dares to rough up Father Time quite like The Marathon Man. He does it now on a serial scale with the same result; the bigger the occasion, the worse the beating for a remorseless old foe who has scythed his way through the Dubliner’s international rivals one by one.
