Call full-time on it while ye still can lads

“C’MERE to me player, there’s a circus coming to the Lee Fields next week. You’ll fit in grand up there.”

Ever since, nearly two decades ago, a slightly extravagant tumble was rewarded, not with the penalty I was surely due, but with the former advice, I’ve nourished a healthy scepticism about the good character of referees in all codes.

Gas men altogether a few of them might be, but not for me. Christmas card list unbolstered.