Illustration of a football referee during an amateur match. - pixathlon / Shutterstock / SIPA

Scene to say the least quite surreal this Saturday on the lawn of the Pareau stadium in Dordogne before the meeting between Coulounieix-Chamiers and Tour S. Merles Blanc in Departmental 2. While the web radio FM Freedom is in full interview, the match referee interrupts this one (at 3 minutes on the video) to indicate that he refuses that the meeting be filmed and all this in a threatening tone: "If I see that you are filming, I go out, I unzip your thing"!

A very surprising intervention on the part of the referee since nothing prohibits anyone from filming meetings of this level and in any case the images cannot be used as VAR [video assistance to arbitration] on the occasion of '' any commissions. Supported by the President of the District, the arbitrator told South West that "it is his right" but that he regrets his words.

He denies threatening a coach

But the evening does not stop there. At the end of the meeting, the very upset local coach goes to the referee to ask him for explanations on the six minutes of additional time and there to the general surprise according to several witnesses, the referee would have replied as follows: come. I have 20 years of rugby behind me, I'm going to sink his head. »Words that the man in yellow firmly denies.

The departmental commission of arbitration has in any case decided to self-seize after these two incidents. The case should be judged in a month.

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