By PETER

No cop out: Nigel Owens

THE orange card is today given the green light by the world’s most-capped Test referee – provided the man in the middle has the final word.
Nigel Owens is recommending that World Rugby’s proposed new sanction should carry an automatic 20-minute ban irrespective of any later disciplinary action from the citing commissioner. The renowned Welshman, marooned two internationals short of a century as the sport waits for a way out of lockdown, welcomes the governing body’s initiative but not their promotion of it to help referees unable t...