Police are investigating an attack on a referee in Auckland after he awarded a penalty try during a club rugby match. Footage has emerged of a match between United Brothers and Lauli’i Lions, part of ...

The war of words over the bonus scandal that has engulfed English rugby has escalated, with the referees’ union insisting it would not be “bullied” by Wayne Barnes or the Rugby Football Union board.

Referees are a problem. We know that they are a problem, because we keep talking about them. I am talking about them right now, and when you read this, you will start talking about them too. We cannot ...

Former Ireland full-back Rob Kearney tells the BBC's Ireland Rugby Social podcast that he believes changes are coming to improve rugby union as a spectacle.

JUST incase beating Ronan O’Gara’s native Munster in a bonus point win wasn’t enough for Finn Russell, he also had a pop at ...

Dec 11 (Reuters) - Welsh rugby union referee Nigel Owens, the most-capped referee in world rugby, announced on Friday that he has ended his 17-year international career. Owens became the first referee ...

Referee Matthew Carley rolls with decisions made in the opening minutes, even if they don’t apply by the hour mark ...

March 1 (Reuters) - French referee Pascal Gauzere held his hand up over the handling of two controversial first-half tries in England's Six Nations defeat by Wales, World Rugby's head of match ...

World Rugby’s Coach of the Year award has become less an honour and more a pantomime, a polite comedy sketch where the punchline ...

A father and son accused of assaulting match officials at an under-14s junior rugby union grand final, the older man allegedly knocking a referee unconscious, have made their first appearance in court ...