NICK CAIN

WHAT the furore surrounding the disallowed Gareth Anscombe touchdown in last weekend’s England- Wales clash proved is that the TMO system has not so much got teething problems as raging toothache. The raw nerve being drilled is that rather than enhancing the referee’s status it is doing the opposite.
Too often the referee is being left as a bystander who passes the key decision to the official looking at the video footage, who might as well be sitting on a throne with the inscription ‘Lord of all he surveys’.
That was certainly the message that French ref...