Fastracked . . . Jackson
Former Chiefs and Saracens fly-half Glen Jackson will referee Fiji’s end-of-year Test against England on November 10.
The 36-year-old represented the Chiefs in 60 Super Rugby matches and played more than 100 times for Sarries and hung up his playing boots in 2010 to pursue a refereeing career in New Zealand.
This after the International Rugby Board launched an initiative to fast-track ex-professional players if they prove good enough.
He was part of the refereeing panel at this year’s Junior World Championship,in South Africa earlier this year, and his ratings were such under the IRB’s new system of appointing referees for Test matches, that he will referee a match involving a tier one nation for the first time.
Match officials:
Fiji vs England at Twickenham, London
Referee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: Craig Joubert, Marius Mitrea (Italy)
Television match official: Gareth Simmonds (Wales)
- PlanetRugby
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