France's Top 14, with its seemingly bottomless resources, has always attracted the finest cuts of world rugby talent but the arrival of Owen Farrell, the epitome of English 'rosbif', at Racing 92 comes across as more substantial than most.
This is not mere window dressing to a season which gets underway this weekend, for Farrell has it within him to turn Racing, perennial glamour boys of the Top 14, into genuine contenders.
