Bernard Le Roux: I could tell Sexton was struggling

It’s good to talk. To really talk.

It happens all too rarely in the micro-managed environment that is a World Cup, but yesterday’s sitdown with Bernard Le Roux opened a more rounded window into Jonathan Sexton’s time with Racing Metro.

That one-dimensional story dominated the agenda this week, after an unnamed former colleague labelled the Irishman the ‘Zlatan Ibrahimovic of rugby’ and his old coach Laurent Labit described them both as ‘failures’ for the Irishman’s truncated two-year stint in Paris.