CHRIS HEWETT

The trouble with the refereeing profession? Ninety-eight per cent of its members give the rest a bad name.
Okay, okay: it’s an old joke, with lawyers the traditional target. But the fact that it is possible to feel sorry for the Bloemfontein-born whistler Jaco Peyper, who, in the view of your columnist, has never been part of the two per cent, gives you an idea of the stew in which rugby currently finds itself.
When Freddie Steward floored Hugo Keenan with a leading elbow, it had a yellow-cardy kind of feel to it, given the current sensitivities around concussion.
Then Peyper w...