Dan Carter: All-Blacks just get better

He’s not an All Black anymore but Dan Carter’s still got it.

In Dublin yesterday for some promotional work, the Racing 92 out-half trailed a posse of PR handlers, company employees and media behind him as he was guided in and around the SoftCo commercial premises on Dublin’s southside.

One kid was so overwrought at meeting his hero that he had to be ushered quietly to one side, tears welling up in his sockets. Now 34, it seems that neither age nor international retirement nor the recent corticosteroid farrago have diminished the man’s appeal.