French will love Zebo flair, says Sexton

The Top 14 may be renowned more for the levels of physicality on show than the finesse but Jonathan Sexton believes Simon Zebo is the type of player who can stand apart from all that blood and the guts and sheer drudgery.

The Munster back will join the world’s richest domestic competition next year when he takes his leave of Munster and joins a French club — believed to be Ronan O’Gara’s Racing 92 — and Sexton knows more than most what awaits him.

The Leinster, Ireland, and Lions out-half spent two years with Racing between 2013 and 2015 and he believes that the likely end of Zebo’s career due to the IRFU’s tendency against picking players who play abroad will actually help him make his mark on the continent.