O’Connell: I’ll learn from ref row

THE exasperated look on Paul O’Connell’s face summed the moment up.

Munster’s talismanic captain was being told to pipe down in the heat of Heineken Cup battle against Northampton at Thomond Park and he wasn’t a bit impressed.

He clearly felt within his rights to question referee Romain Poite’s somewhat erratic decisions on a night of high drama, but the French official had had enough.