Rugby Ref Steve Walsh Takes Exception To Conrad Smith Getting In His way

Referee Steve Walsh has courted controversy on a couple of occasions in the past, most notably when he launched a profanity filled tirade at Shane Horgan during the 2005 Lions tour. This weekend he was involved in a bit of an incident again after Conrad Smith blocked his running line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDdmjyhXXmI

The push was pretty tame but at the same time, are there many other professional refs that would react the same way as Walsh did? Smith's reaction of "easy, easy" is pretty good and in fairness Walsh does offer an apology but refs should try to be as anonymous as possible and there is something about Walsh that gets peoples attention.

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