'They've hung Craig Joubert out to dry'
The Daily Mirror's rugby union correspondent Alex Spink says he is "incredulous" at World Rugby's announcement that Craig Joubert got a crucial decision wrong in Sunday's quarter final.
Scotland led 34-32 at Twickenham when Jon Welsh was ruled deliberately offside for playing the ball after a knock-on by a team-mate.
The governing body said that, because Australia's Nick Phipps touched the ball, "the appropriate decision should have been a scrum to Australia for the original knock-on".
But Spink says, "rugby's got to get itself together, because these sort of decisions just make a mockery of the sport."
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