Wayne Barnes is the world’s best referee – and here is why players think so

Scroll back through highlights of Wayne Barnes’ career as a referee and you will come across what is now quite an amusing clip of a fresh-faced Barnes lecturing a scrum-capped Steve Borthwick, with the England head coach then playing for Bath, and Leicester’s Martin Corry. Issuing a stern “come here now”, Barnes then lectures the two captains on the “example they have to set for the game”.