Rugby Union

Do we feel sorry for the Scots, who were leading Australia in a World Cup quarter-final with a couple of minutes to go only to be undone by a dodgy penalty decision which resulted in a one-point victory for the Aussies?  Oh, come on - they're Scots!!  But were they robbed, as some of them insist? The late great Bill McLaren (himself a Scot), who was the BBC commentator on rugby matches from the 1950s right through until the turn of the century was wont, when referring to a controversial decision, to recite Law 6.A.4.(a) of the rules of the game: "The referee is the sole judge of fact", or as it has otherwise been put - the referee is always right, even when he's wrong. So no, they weren't robbed - just unlucky,