Median Of Fair Play

Maybe it’s th’ European way - but anything less 

explicable, or as distressingly one-sided, would 

be erased discretely over here; we try t’ play by 

the rules agreed in concert, but whether they’re 

supposedly th’ same to International Referees’s 

a guessing game: maybe it’s th’ right thing t’ do 

in France - neutrality’s a catch 22 scene, unless 

you’re imbued t’ properly favour th’ home team 

And thus we saw a narrow win to the All Blacks; 

yes, France played with enthusiasm and energy, 

but perhaps a particularly lenient way they were 

refereed requires serious consideration - parties 

guilty of similar offences were routinely ‘treated’ 

differently; I’d guess the TMO had to be French

From the inordinate way replay revues seemed 

biassed - and with due consideration penalties 

awarded favoured th’ Home team with a lesser 

severity than those on the visitors bench; what 

it means is obviously different interpretation of 

what we used to see as the median of fair play 

© 15 November 2017, I. D. Carswell

France 23 -  All Blacks 28