RE: Well, he reacted and it was above the shoulders. nt Their player did first offence, and if the ref had given obstruction in the first place it wouldn't have happened. Quite how he could book one and not the other for that I don't know. Their number 18 was a nasty piece of work, was trying to wind players up all the time.
RE: Well, he reacted and it was above the shoulders. nt Yeah I don't get why their player wasn't booked but he did react.
From where I was (and i was at the back of the ponty, so miles away) he seemed to hit out and push the opposing player in the face. It wasn't anything serious but he raised his arm to the guys face which would have been a sending off with other refs.
To me it looked like he was trying to calm the situation down. He put his hands up but nowhere near Butler.. who appeared to take the opportunity to walk into the raised hands or just pretended that he had. Played to get Anderson sent off from what I saw but I wasn't sat up that corner of the pitch.