Suspecting perfidy amidst only English-speaking referees is not a new phenomenon and in the past the French have had little support when making this accusation. They might have a tad more after the way the Munster v Toulon game panned out.

You cannot, and I do not, make even a scintilla of a suggestion that there was any conscious bias from any official, but the relative time spent in scrutinising some decisions, not reviewing others and the dialogue between officials left some disinterested parties struggling to explain the clear disparities.

The seemingly interminable ruling on the Conor Murray try, where Guilhem Guirado was ruled to have knocked on, contrasted sharply with the scant time it...