PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Maybe one day James Ryan will find it in him to send a note of gratitude to Matthew Carley care of the RFU referees’ bunker at Twickenham.
Whether Leinster’s co-captain emerges as the chosen one to lead the post-Johnny Sexton Ireland into the Six Nations has become a matter of still more intrigue since Carley’s public removal of his armband in La Rochelle last Sunday evening.
Getting that far on the wrong side of a World Cup referee noted for his tolerance takes some doing. Ryan put himself there so soon that his ex-communication had been completed ...