Respected former referee Nigel Owens has hit out at Rassie Erasmus after the SA director of rugby’s latest criticism of match officiating on social media.
In the aftermath of the clash between the Springboks and France, Erasmus posted a spate of videos of officiating discrepancies by match referee Wayne Barnes, and week after a similar post following a loss for the world champions to Ireland.
“I saw these [videos] come up and I was thinking ‘is this his genuine profile? Is he doing this?’” said Owens. “If you’re not happy about decisions, or you have questions about decisions – as every coach would have – referees can’t get everything right, there is a process to go through.“You send your timeline to the referee manager, which would be Joel Jutge at World Rugby, and they would look at that with the referee.
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