Among the rugby sentences you never thought you’d read – “I was wrong about everything,” says Eddie Jones; “I’m overrated,” says Henry Pollock – comes this one from Joe Simpson, who knows a thing or two about the art and science of half-backery.
“Maxime Lucu is a better scrum-half than Antoine Dupont,” he wrote in last week’s paper. Crikey.
According to Joe, the modern-day superhero of the union code is not even the best No.9 in France, let alone the world.
Many of you will condemn this as rank heresy, infinitely worse than the line about Ringo Starr not being the best drummer in The Beatl...