It was at a scrum, which they were deemed to have wheeled, but the whole notion of penalties awarded at scrum time was a travesty, on a pitch where the top soil was as loose as a rug.
All the other players stopped for an incident in nobody's play sheet and rarely will Racing have been more relieved to be awarded a scrum.
It was not the world's biggest surprise when the referee, Luke Pearce, awarded four scrum penalties against them in the first 25 minutes as the beefy, young Alex Rogers fell foul of the wily Marcos Ayerza.
Leicester repelled the first two, if not in line with the regulations, but the third ambush was so successful they were awarded a scrum with the ball lost in the maul.
Yesterday, when France were awarded a scrum a couple of minutes before the end in an attacking position and we drove their pack backwards there was a surge of relief on the pitch as well as in the crowd.
World Rugby later announced Joubert had made the wrong call and should have awarded a scrum but it was the 38-year-old's decision to run off the pitch which angered many.
The referee had just awarded a scrum to Ulster for a Glasgow knock-on, from which they might have closed out the match, but when he watched Matawalu's histrionics replayed from a variety of angles on the big screen, he decided to ask the TMO to check for foul play.
Both times it was brought down by Lawes, legally, and defenders, first Salesi Ma'afu and then Dickinson, deliberately flopped on the wrong side to prevent release and saw their side awarded a scrum on the grounds that a ruck had not taken place as the ball was not on the floor.
Ospreys were then forced into an error of their own and Glasgow were awarded a scrum underneath the posts.
Bradford opened the scoring in the fifth minute, when they were awarded a scrum on the Robins' 40 metre line following an error by Evarn Tuimavave.
