Resisting the bid to have the case sent back to a different judge for a retrial of the civil claim, Augustus Ullstein QC said that to allow "a second bite of the cherry" would create serious injustice.
The sense of injustice was felt in the Leeds dressing room because they came out firing in the second half and soon had another three points from Thomas's boot.
Describing the Civil Rights Movement without mentioning Jim Crow is like writing about the atrocities committed by the German army in the Second World War and not mentioning Nazi race theory: it leaves out the primary ideological basis of the injustice being described.