TV View: Rugby and soccer pundits left with little choice but to talk balls and fouls

Rugby is peculiar, really. What other sport would give us an intense debate on whether “a hand through the legs”, as Bernard Jackman described it, ended up in that location purely by accident or whether it was an act of skulduggery and a deliberate assault on an opponent’s bodily integrity?

If you’re old enough, you might recall that Vinnie Jones/Paul Gascoigne incident when the general reaction was “lolololol”, but there were no lols at all from rugby over the allegation that jammed your sports pages last week.