COLIN BOAG
Slo-mo is a strange beast: sometimes it can make an incident seem to be more serious than it is, and the slower it goes the worse it can look, yet on other occasions it sheds light on the situation.
The one thing that is certain is that still photographs – and there are those who express a view based on them – are utterly useless. We’ve all seen pictures that make it look as though a gouge has occurred, but in real-time the hand accidentally passes near the eyes in a fraction of a second.
Watching it live, I was convinced Owen Farrell would get carded, and tha...