Peter Jackson: Generational talent Dupont settles old scores

The Frenchman is the best around and he proved it again against Leinster on Saturday.

Stade Toulousain's Antoine Dupont with the trophy following the Investec Champions Cup final. Pic: Adam Davy/PA Wire

For all his acclamation as a scrum-half from a distant planet inhabited by superior beings, Antoine Dupont had landed in London suffering from a chronic habit of getting on the wrong side of Leinster.

The tears he shed beneath Tottenham’s Golden Cockerell after winning a Champions’ Cup final like no other left a trail which can be traced all the way back to an autumn Sunday ten years ago when Castres gave their 17-year-old substitute a token run in a lost cause.