JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

French rugby’s new definition of ‘inevitable’ is Racing 92 new boy Gael Fickou scoring the first try of Friday’s Top 14 play-off barrage derby against Stade Francais, the club he controversially left in April.
Some may argue that ‘you couldn’t write the script’ for this. But they’d be wrong. As soon as the squads were announced, many were. And it happened.
He then provided the final pass for Teddy Thomas to score their second in the 12th minute as Racing threatened to overwhelm their Parisian opponents...