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Referees suffering signs of the times

THERE must be a million better things to think about, yet the image of Tony Spreadbury, in his first outing as an international referee, dismissing the mighty French forward Abdel Benazzi from the field after 13 minutes of a fun-and-games meeting with the Wallabies in Sydney way back in 1990 frequently returns to the mind’s eye.
Spreadbury did not flourish the red card, for the very good reason that there were no red cards to flourish. Three extravagantly theatrical waves of the right arm, forefinger pointing to the touchline, told us everything. Test rugby may have been far wi...

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