Wales Earned Rub of the Green ; Breaks Go Side's Way -- For Once

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Wales 19 Ireland 13 IF Lassie were from Ireland, it's a safe bet the world's most famous fictional dog would have bitten Peter Allan on Saturday night.

Similarly, if Gandhi had hailed from Dublin and been in Cardiff over the weekend, there's a fair chance even history's most celebrated pacifist would have wanted to stick one on the Scottish official.

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Wales Earned Rub of the Green ; Breaks Go Side's Way -- For Once

Certainly, he would have had to take his place in a long green- shirted queue.

What was Allan thinking about as Wales were allowed a try that shouldn't have been, with Matthew Rees taking a quick throw-in with a different ball from the one that Irish substitute Jonathan Sexton sliced into touch? IRB rule 19.2d is clear: "For a quick throw-in, the player must use the ball that went into touch.

"A quick throw in is not permitted if another person has touched the ball apart from the player throwing it in and an opponent who carried it into touch."

Referee Jonathan Kaplan consulted Allan before awarding the score,...

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