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Peter Jackson: Justice a moveable feast in rugby's bunker 

The more experts the game appoints to ensure justice is not only done but seen to be done, the more confusing it becomes.
Peter Jackson: Justice a moveable feast in rugby's bunker 

YELLOW PERIL: England's Tom Curry is shown a yellow card during the 2023 Rugby World Cup Pool D match at the Stade de Marseille.

A weekend of blood and thunder all over France will have reduced untold millions to a state of bewilderment over rugby’s sense of justice.

They see three players from three continents commit the same dangerous offence and cannot understand why all three are handed different punishments or, in one case, no punishment at all.

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