Last weekend I watched the final of the men’s Rugby World Cup. I know little or nothing about rugby but thanks to the referee’s constant but polite explanation of rules and infringements, heard over the playing of the game, I got some grasp of its great complexity. What a nice bloke he seemed to be in the middle of a heaving tangle of human effort.
South Africa clashed with New Zealand, the two dominant forces in world rugby, with South Africa managing a one-point victory. And boy, was it nail-bitingly intense!
The racial
