The out-half will captain Ireland at the World Cup after serving his three-game ban.
JOHNNY SEXTON ISN’T a man who tends to get stuck for words when there’s a microphone in front of him, but there was a moment at the Shelbourne Hotel yesterday where the Ireland captain took a lengthy pause before answering a question from the floor.
“Yeah, I think when it affects your family, you obviously go, ‘Why are you upset?’ Sexton said. “This happened, this happened, this happened, this happened, this happened” – and still five weeks later this is still happening… “I’m not sure why it took so long but that’s the way it was handled. It doesn’t really matter what I think; I got my suspension and I’ve had to just sit it out and that’s it.”
That’s what I held my hand up for. I don’t go along with a lot of the other stuff that was thrown at me, but sometimes you’ve just got to take it on the chin. “It’s over now, thankfully, and hopefully I’ll be in good shape come Romania in two weeks.” “For a kicker, to injure your adductors like I did is not ideal but thankfully the IRFU sent me to the best guy in the world.
On the back of an excellent year which has included a series win in New Zealand and Grand Slam success, Ireland head to France as the number one ranked team in the world and one of the early favourites to win the World Cup.
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