Distinguished former Test referee Wayne Barnes has hailed the Springboks for their ability to find loopholes in the game’s laws, despite it sometimes crossing that line.
Understanding of the laws
“This weekend at Twickenham, we will see a visiting team and a coach who not only know the law book word for word, but they also know the match-day regulations almost as if they were the ones who drafted them,” the former referee wrote in his Telegraph column.