IRFU at loggerheads with Racing over Sexton injury

Ireland and Racing Metro are at loggerheads over the severity of Johnny Sexton’s thumb injury, casting the fly-half’s RBS 6 Nations campaign into doubt.

Ireland’s medical team and Paris club Racing’s management hold conflicting opinions on Sexton’s chances of a quick return from the thumb ligament damage he suffered in Saturday’s 13-10 defeat to England at Twickenham.