Johnny won’t be ‘Racing’ home

Jonathan Sexton insists that quotes attributed to him in a recent interview where he admitted thinking about quitting Racing Metro were “blown out of proportion” and that he is settling in to life in France.

Always an honest interviewee, the Ireland out-half told the BBC prior to the Six Nations that he had days where he contemplated handing in his notice in Paris and others where he felt like he could stay with the club for life.

“All the headlines could have been that I could be there forever and now it’s like, ‘you want home’,” he said yesterday at Dublin Airport where he was promoting an Aer Lingus air fare sale prior to his return to Paris.