{"id":32981,"date":"2018-03-19T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/19\/johnny-sexton-hails-irelands-incredible-defence-under-andy-farrell\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T02:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T01:00:19","slug":"johnny-sexton-hails-irelands-incredible-defence-under-andy-farrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=32981","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Sexton hails Ireland\u2019s \u2018incredible\u2019 defence under Andy Farrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Win over England was Farrell\u2019s first Twickenham visit since sacking\u2022 \u2018Hopefully we can have good crack at next World Cup,\u2019 says SextonIreland were forced to cancel their planned homecoming in Dublin on Sunday because of the adverse weather but it will take more than that to dampen the celebrations after securing only a third grand slam in their history. For the defence coach, Andy Farrell, the manner in which it was achieved makes it all the&nbsp;sweeter.A third Six Nations title under Joe Schmidt had already been secured but a first Ireland away win against England since 2010 ensured the clean sweep on what was Farrell\u2019s first return to Twickenham since he was shown the door following the 2015 World Cup. He was appointed Ireland\u2019s defence coach in January 2016 but did not take up the job until June that year after a short\u2011term role with Munster. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/mar\/19\/johnny-sexton-ireland-andy-farrell-england\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Sexton hails Ireland\u2019s \u2018incredible\u2019 defence under Andy Farrell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Win over England was Farrell\u2019s first Twickenham visit since sacking\u2022 \u2018Hopefully we can have good crack at next World Cup,\u2019 says SextonIreland were forced to cancel their planned homecoming in Dublin on Sunday because of the adverse weather but it will take more than that to dampen the celebrations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}