CHRIS HEWETT
THINKING ALLOWED

In the middle: Sara Cox took charge of the Women’s Premiership final between Gloucester-Hartpury and Bristol last weekend
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WE CAN easily imagine New Zealand rugby folk in the afterlife, shaking the English referee Roger Quittenton warmly by the hand while grabbing the Scottish official John Dewar Dallas roughly by the throat.
The Welsh, another oval-ball community with a highly developed sense of sporting injustice, would do it the other way round, rolling out the red carpet for Dallas before frogmarching Quittenton tow...