Will Genia, the wonderful Wallaby half-back with the all-seeing eye, spotted something amid the fire and fury of last week’s Test in Brisbane that told him everything he needed to know about Jonathan Sexton, just about the most important individual in a Lions team now standing on the brink of a something too rare to be dismissed as merely special: a series victory in the southern hemisphere. It was nothing so delicate as a perfectly weighted pass or clever little chip into space, still less a barely perceptible readjustment of balance that had a marauding back-row forward clutching filthy great handfuls of thin air instead of grabbing his man by the short and curlies. What impressed Genia,...
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