But Springboks vice-captain Victor Matfield said his team-mates needed to adapt to the referee's law interpretations.

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BBC's Match of the Day 2 programme showed that, by the letter of the law, referee Martin Atkinson should have blown his whistle one second before Owen's winning goal.

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It is called the Liga Continental, said the referee's brother-in-law Pedro Lopez, who also gets paid to referee in the league.

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