PopTart wrote:
Although possibly, those fans 100 yards away with a pint can't in fact see and don't know the rules as well as the ref.
But they can see a picture right in front of them of a players foot clearly in touch when a try has just been awarded with the lineman stood half a metre away and the ref right in front of him, it`s probably these instances they think back to when at the match and see a decision go against the team and probably have little confidence in the fact that the officials are actually doing there job right.
I always remember one bloke behind me in stand been told to shut up by another fan at Warrington as he thought they had been given an extra tackle which led to them scoring and winning the game, I mean surely a ref knows how to keep count of a set of tackles? Turns out he didn`t.