The prince of French referees, Jacques Muntz, wrote in 1935: “Rugby is a game of chess played at full speed. » Video capture, frame-by-frame analysis in front of a row of screens and audio links ultimately don’t change much: the field referee often makes his decision alone, and the metaphor of the chessboard filled with pieces moving around the speed of an Olympic sprinter clearly describes the difficulty we all have, observers, players, referees, coaches, in perceiving in real time all the movements of this polymorphous game.
Why the France-South Africa referee, New Zealander Ben O’Keeffe, was chosen for a semi-final
