World Rugby has officially confirmed that veteran English referee Wayne Barnes has been appointed as the man in the middle for Saturday's World Cup final in Paris.
World Rugby has officially confirmed that veteran English referee Wayne Barnes has been appointed as the man in the middle for Saturday’s World Cup final in Paris.
The world’s most-capped referee with 110 tests having made his debut with Fiji v Samoa in Suva in June 2006, Barnes will become the second Englishman to officiate a Rugby World Cup final after Ed Morrison, who was in charge when New Zealand and South Africa last met in the title decider in 1995.
The final will be his sixth match in the middle during France 2023, equalling the record he set at 2019 when he took charge of New Zealand’s defeat of Wales in the bronze final in Tokyo. The Englishman also has history with the All Blacks as he was in charge of New Zealand’s controversial quarter-final loss to France in 2007. More recently, he blew the whistle in New Zealand’s 2023 quarter-final victory over Ireland.
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