Rugby refs turn to cooking, gardening and teaching
Jaco Peyper discovers he has green fingers, and not from testing rugby pitches
25 May 2020 - 18:21
Usually they are criss-crossing the globe to destinations where, as part of the job, they boss around blokes twice their size.
For rugby’s top match officials the Covid-19-enforced lockdown must be a huge departure from their comfort zone. It can reasonably be assumed that referees and television match officials (TMOs) must by now have developed cabin fever‚ while becoming a nuisance to those they routinely leave behind...
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