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Good to see Phil pick up whistle

Former England captain Phil de Glanville

So Phil de Glanville, an England captain in his prime and a smooth-operating sports administrator in the years since, has reached for the whistle in his mid-50s.
What kept him? Sean Fitzpatrick, a New Zealand skipper of similar vintage, was refereeing rugby matches three decades ago. The fact that he was playing in them at the same time is neither here nor there.
By all accounts, the former Bath centre is making a decent fist of it. There again, he has it easy: when you’re running the show in the lower reaches of the Somerset league structure, you don’t have a TMO poking his or her nose in ...

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