IT was a close-run thing, but on the balance of predicatability, the TMO system just sneaked home ahead of Owen Farrell’s behavioural tendencies in last weekend’s “well… THERE’S a shock” contest-within-a-contest between Saracens and Harlequins in North London.
In other words, the bookies would have offered marginally shorter odds on the “video ref ” set-up being exposed – yet again – as a dog’s breakfast than on the union game’s most combative outside-half reacting in a tempestuous way to a cheap shot upon his person.

Remember the old Woody Allen joke? “It’s the Second Law of Thermodynamic...