Who is South Africa v Wales referee Matthew Carley and…

Who is South Africa v Wales referee Matthew Carley and the previous controversies which angered Wayne Pivac

There will be familiar faces for Wales when it comes to the men in charge of the third Test decider with South Africa in Cape Town.

Wayne Pivac's team will know the workings of English referee Matthew Carley, who has taken charge of Wales matches before and most recently was man in the middle for the 9-13 Six Nations loss to France at the Principality Stadium.

The touch judges will also be known to Dan Biggar and his team as they were the men in charge of the first two Tests versus the Springboks this summer.

Australian Angus Gardner will run one line to support Carley and Georgia's Nika Amashukeli, whose refereeing frustrated Wales in the opening game, will be the other touch judge.

Carley, 37, comes from Dover and first became an English Premiership referee in 2013. He got involved in international rugby in 2015 and his first major game was two years on when he took charge of Scotland v New Zealand at Murrayfield.

He has refereed Wales on a number of occasions, with differing outcomes for the Welsh camp.

Carley was the referee who sent off Scotland's Zander Fagerson for a shoulder to the head of Wales front-rower Wyn Jones in last year's Six Nations game. Wales won the game and went on to take the title.

However, he angered Wales boss Pivac with two key decisions made in a previous Wales v France game, this time at the Principality Stadium in 2020 when Les Bleus emerged narrow 27-23 victors.

Pivac insisted Carley should have awarded Wales a penalty try after Paul Willemse knocked down a Ken Owens pass near the try line, when Josh Adams was free outside and appeared likely to score.

His skipper Alun Wyn Jones even said: "There was probably a case for a couple of penalty tries."

Pivac also claimed a decisive final scrum penalty won by French prop Demba Bamba should never have been given.

"We have had a look at the slap down and I think the officials may have got that one wrong," said Pivac at the time. "That stopped momentum as well."

He continued: "Another disappointing moment was when the French tight-head came on and went straight across the scrum and was rewarded for that. Those were the big moments in the game. The scrums, from our point of view, had gone okay up until that point. You have got to go with the forward motion but he clearly went across the scrum."

Wales know they are set for a huge battle today against South Africa's famed scrum, so it will be interesting to see how Carley manages that facet of the game.