‘Gansongate’ could be measured at point eight on the Richter scale. The controversy rocked the Bulls to its foundations and the injustice of the whole rotten episode brought overwhelming sympathy from everyone involved in the game, including Leeds coach Tony Smith, who was the first to admit that the catalogue of bizarre decisions cost Bradford a deserved victory.

The tremors are still being felt in Super League, with referee Steve Ganson, video ref Ashley Klein and the two touch judges all caught up in its aftermath as blame is bandied about like tissues at a kids birthday party.

But the truth will out, and with Ganson and Klein on such wobbly ground, some fascinating facts began to emerge as they explained their decisions, culminating in what Harlequins director of football Tony Rea described on Boots N’ All as a “frightening” revelation.

It turns out Ganson was not the big baddie after all. Okay, he messed up – and has since apologised – for failing to call for the video ref on the decisive, last-second try by Jordan Tansey, when the Leeds man was blatantly offside as the penalty was kicked.

But the decision to award the initial penalty was not his, it was Klein’s, who broke RFL policy by contacting the referee via the mic to tell him to award a penalty. What made it worse was that he got the call wrong. Without using the replay technology, Klein (sat up in the stands, miles from the action) missed the fact that the ball had struck a Leeds boot in the melee, meaning there was no Bradford infringement.

That both errors happened in the dying seconds, and then watching dumbstruck as the ball rebounded off the crossbar no less and straight into the grateful hands of the offside Tansey, makes the finale all the more sensational and unbearable.

The upshot is the most controversial talking point of the season by far, which has thrown up a real humdinger of a revelation: the implication that video referees make regular contact with the match referee during a game, in blatant contravention of their own rules.

If this is true, then match officials director Stuart Cummings has some explaining to do.

If you break the rules in any job, you can expect to be punished. Simple. So why haven’t the RFL acted over this?

They may have suspended Ganson and Klein for one week, but what for? Was Klein banned for the rule-breaking or for his mistake over the offside? Surely, if Cummins is aware of the fact that video refs break the rules, then the buck should stop with him. So why hasn’t he been punished? If he wasn’t aware of this, then why hasn’t Ashley Klein been severely reprimanded for what amounts to gross negligence?

These are the questions the Bulls and the whole of the rugby league fraternity want answering.

Someone has to be accountable or else what is the point of having rules in the first place?

But as ever, the RFL have been doing a grand job of sticking their head in the sand, hoping the storm will all blow over.

They are doing what video referees should be doing, remaining silent.

And yet, look how eager they were to comment on the success of the Millennium Magic weekend as a whole. Press releases galore came flying out of Red Hall in the days after the Cardiff showpiece. Strange how they can find their voice when they have something positive to spotlight.