Sexton outcome marks official death of farce that is rugby values

When European rugby chiefs released the verdict from the Johnny Sexton’s disciplinary hearing at 9:30pm on Sunday night, it marked the long, slow and painful death of the farce that is rugby values.

Rugby values can be defined as the ideals some in the past have placed on the game, whereby everything is about respect and doing the right thing and saying “good job, fellow squire” when the opposition scores a try or wins a game.

Those values, if they ever existed, are officially dead and buried six, if not eight, feet under.

Sexton let off?

Because in the independent disciplinary hearing for the talismanic Irish No10 – who admitted misconduct