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Brendan Gallagher: Players love getting one over the referee

I’m intrigued, fascinated, perplexed, occasionally entertained, but mostly irritated by why sportsmen and women feel the need to subtly but deliberately flaunt minor laws in an insidious rather truculent fashion.
Scotland’s Finn Russell, right, and Darcy Graham

I’m intrigued, fascinated, perplexed, occasionally entertained, but mostly irritated by why sportsmen and women feel the need to subtly but deliberately flaunt minor laws in an insidious rather truculent fashion.

We are not talking massive flagrant blatant transgressions that have you out of your seat shouting abuse and are greeted by volleys of criticism and analysis, but the small seemingly needless stuff that seems indicative of a certain mindset.
For example, next time you tune in or attend a game, see if you can spot a player taking a legal dropout from under their own sticks or restar...

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