Refs’ balancing act becoming impossible

Michael Duignan’s plea could have served as an entreaty for all manner of frustrated parties.

Refs’ balancing act becoming impossible

“What difference is a few inches going to make?”

It might also work as a summary of our fine country’s attitude to any form of regulation. But it was, instead, uttered in sympathy with every hurler’s ineluctable need to dispatch a sideline cut from a marginally more advantageous position than the linesman has advised suitable. And Duignan is right. Why worry about the inches until the miles have been clocked?

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