Time got the better of Sexton - not just Farrell, Russell and Biggar
Irish captain’s omission from Warren Gatland’s squad was tough but at 35 his durability has come into question.
Garry Doyle
By Garry Doyle
Thursday 6 May 2021, 5:38 PM
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Gatland and Sexton on the 2017 tour.
Image: Dan Sheridan/INPHO
Image: Dan Sheridan/INPHO
THERE IS AN old story about Larry Holmes and Mike Tyson that has never aged.
It dates back to a January evening in 1988, a lurid setting in Atlantic City, where the high rollers from New York’s showbiz set had forked out top dollar for ringside seats. Holmes, remember, had more or less finished Muhammad Ali’s career eight years earlier. Now he was the one taking a beating as Barbara Streisand, John McEnroe and Joe DiMaggio looked on.