Peter Jackson highlights what he sees as the worrying inconsistency in the European disciplinary system using the case of Calvisano's Nicola Cattina as an example of the problem. Read his thoughts in the Daily Mail.
"Cattina's name does not ring any bells outside Italy despite his status as captain of the Junior Azzurri and, therefore, nobody would have been the least bit bothered about his sentence to the doghouse. He took his punishment on the chin, so to speak, and faced the consequences of losing his temper without a murmur of complaint when he had every reason to feel aggrieved.
"His fate highlights a flaw which ought to concern the fairminded, one which calls into serious question the consistent administering of justice, or rather the lack of it, as applied in the European rugby court. It is to the shame of the organisers that they have, however unwittingly, made a mockery of the old saying: You've done the crime, now you do the time."
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