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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Robert Kitson

TMO heard appearing to not review incident flagged by TV pundit Healey

Owen Farrell of Saracens gives his team instructions during the Premiership win over Harlequins
Owen Farrell of Saracens gives his team instructions during the Premiership win over Harlequins. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images

The Rugby Football Union says there will be a review into the incident on Saturday during the Saracens v Harlequins game in which a possible case of foul play was ignored by match officials on the bizarre grounds that the TV pundit Austin Healey had spotted it first.

Healey had identified a knee-slide clearout on Owen Farrell by the Quins captain, Stephan Lewies, in the latter stages of Sarries’ 52-7 victory and suggested on-air “it could be really interesting” to see exactly where Farrell had been struck.

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