Peter Jackson: Confusing calls do little for credibility of rugby

Referee Pascal Gauzere took charge of Wales' win over England at the Principality Stadium. Picture: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

Nobody had seen as much smoke billowing out of Martin Johnson’s cauliflowered ears since England drove him into a state of near volcanic eruption at Croke Park in 2009.

Squirming in his seat in the Hogan Stand, his contorted face told its own story, of a head coach furious at the ‘stupidity’ of recurring English indiscipline. Twelve years later, on the very same Saturday, the old Lions’ captain left Cardiff’s empty rugby cathedral ‘fuming’ at the French referee.