Peter Jackson: Dan Carter winning at numbers game

Even allowing for his status as the Michelangelo of fly halves, Dan Carter will be very pleasantly surprised at the numbers behind his first gallop with Racing, writes Peter Jackson.

They take some crunching, appropriately so given the Parisians’ crushing of Northampton. Carter is now worth so much that his earning power on Saturday works out at €793.65 a minute, maybe more.

A calculator applied to some rudimentary accountancy confirms the New Zealander’s second coming in the European Cup as infinitely more rewarding than the first, with Perpignan seven years ago. And they forked out €700,000 for six months work or, as it turned out, five matches before he ruptured an Achilles tendon.