Who Angus Gardner? Former World Rugby Referee of the Year at Six Nations

FRANCE are taking up Eire in a match that might resolve the winner of this 12 months’s Six Nations.

The 2 groups are the favourites for the title this 12 months and each bought off to successful begins.

The French outclassed Italy as anticipated to win 37-10 whereas Eire made a press release by thumping Wales 29-7.

However what do we all know concerning the man within the center for this large recreation on the Stade de France, Australia’s Angus Gardner?

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Who’s Angus Gardner?

Angus Gardner was born in Sydney in 1984.

As a young person, he was a eager rugby participant till he was identified with Scheuremann’s Illness [a hereditary disc condition].

Of the second he was identified, Gardner informed Sydney Morning Herald: “The physician was like ‘mate, that you must take up fishing’ and that was devastating to listen to.

“One of many academics advised refereeing as a means of staying concerned and I went from there.”

Gardner refereed his first worldwide match in 2011, taking cost of Papua New Guinea vs Vanuatu.

A 12 months later he refereed his first Tremendous Rugby fixture, Queensland Reds vs Melbourne Rebels.

In 2018, he refereed the Tremendous Rugby remaining, and the identical 12 months he went on to win World Rugby’s Referee of the 12 months award.

Has Angus Gardner refereed France or Eire earlier than?

Angus Gardner took cost of considered one of France’s most vital latest matches.

He was the person within the center for France vs Argentina on the 2019 Rugby World Cup, wherein the French secured a 23-21 win that in the end noticed them by to the quarter-final.

Gardner had his fingers full that day, as a 20-man brawl broke out after the ultimate whistle.

On the similar event, Gardner took cost of Eire’s recreation in opposition to hosts Japan, which resulted in a 19-12 defeat and condemned them to a quarter-final with New Zealand.

Gardner additionally spoke of refereeing an Eire match in opposition to South Africa at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, which he describes as his favorite venue.

He mentioned: The fortress, the historical past. I did South Africa versus Eire there two years in the past. Eire shot out to a 19-3 lead at half-time.

“The Ellis Park crowd booed the Springboks off at half-time and I assumed they had been booing me.

“Then, as fairytales would have it, South Africa got here out and received the sport.”