I UNDERSTAND Brendan Gallagher’s frustration at refereeing decisions in Cardiff. But he engaged in petulant hyperbole in saying that: “And if the Welsh think that they were badly done by when Andy Haden took a dive in 1978, this surpasses it by a county mile.”
The incident in 1978 involved a player deliberately cheating. No Wales player cheated and I hope BG is not implying that the referee cheated. These incidents are not capable of comparison. For the first try England had themselves to blame for switching off (as they did for the third try) and the second...