Johnny Sexton: Three-match ban was 'my own fault'

OWNING IT: Captain Jonathan Sexton during the announcement of the Ireland Rugby World Cup squad at The Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Jonathan Sexton admits that he has no-one but himself to blame for the ban that kept him sidelined for this summer’s warm-up games and through to Ireland’s first World Cup fixture, against Romania in Bordeaux.

The Leinster veteran was handed a three-match suspension on the back of a disciplinary process that dragged on for two months after he was involved in a heated exchange with match officials at the end of the Heineken Champions Cup final loss to La Rochelle.