Why can’t we apply the laws fairly?

Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points, By Brendan Gallagher

You can blow a mental gasket trying to get your head around rugby’s obsession with minutiae when making some vital decisions and its wanton disregard for the laws while making others. Last Sunday at Sale was a prime example.
There was Tom Carr-Smith’s decisive try – not even queried by officialdom – which came off an opportunist penalty kick downfield from Finn Russell which his colleague chased hard to touch down 90 yards up field.
Now I’m the biggest Russell fan on the plant but the fact is he took t...

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