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How Did The Ref Miss This??? | Bulls vs Lions Currie Cup 2022

The thing that still fascinates me is that World Rugby will never miss an accidental head clash, they'll punish it no matter the context of how it happened. Then stuff like this happens on the field where there is actually foul play with intent and malice, yet this stuff gets ignored. The TMO's are quick to jump in to give red cards for accidental head clashes, they're quick to watch the slow motion replays 50 times in order to convince the ref of a red card. But then stuff like this gets ignored. It's astonishing to me how bad officiating is in World Rugby and then people get mad for pointing it out. In this case Marius van der Westhuizen was the ref and Egon Seconds the TMO. I can understand if they missed it in real time, even though this happened directly in front of Marius. But to miss this when you watch the replay as well, that is just shocking. Not to mention the Bulls player, Marco Janse van Vuuren being visibly upset with that happened when Ginter Smuts stamped on his arm.