By Peter Jackson
Not since Andy Haden and Frank Oliver staged their amateurish theatrics against Wales at the Arms Park in 1978 can anyone have been caught stooping to a lower dirty trick than Nolann le Garrec’s against Perpignan.
The Racing scrum-half’s pathetic attempt to deceive the referee into believing he had been butted in the face brought the wider game into disrepute, a video of the grubby incident on social media having pinged it far beyond the boundaries of the Top 14.
Rugby’s habit of doing tomorrow what football did yesterday ought to have put the authorities at a high-level st...
