The Referees (Les Arbitres)

Karagounis, Karagounis !

Don't make signal! Don't make signal!

Excuse me.

"Sorry" you say.

Stop it, Karagounis. Don't make signal!

'Cause I'll show a yellow card. Stop it already.

Yellow, yellow.

Mathias, before a yellow card, are you sure 200%?

At 100%.

Bravo.

Karagounis, Karagounis !

Let's continue to play. Play, play, play, play on...

- Change or not? - Yes!

Shit!

It's a big storm in the city.

Patrick told me. It's a big storm in the city.

So maybe it will come here.

I do not understand, what the fuck you are talking ...

It's raining in the city, a big rain, so maybe could come here.

In a few moments, because now it is ...

It's not my problem. Shut up!

OK, but just to be prepared. Because of your ...

Concentrate, concentrate, Ivan, please, please.

Do not talk for nothing.

This is not the time for fucked end.

Ivan, tell me!

Come on!

- 10 ... - Yes, talk, talk!

... 9, 8, 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1. End.

We are not Gods. We make mistakes.

- How are we. - Yes, we make mistakes, I know, yeah.

Yeah, sure, we make also mistakes.

I'm sorry. I'm not God.

We make also mistakes.

Yeah, sure, I'm sorry, I'm very sorry.

Uff, finished! Finished!

That's was good! That's was good, or?

Yes, well done.

You aren't singing?

Ah, no. I am whistling. I am just whistling.

A new blue jersey was good?

Have we to prepare a little theatre for you, or?

Good evening everyone.

It was very important to takes the best referees of Europe.

I don't interfere into the refereeing, never!

I trust the committee, I trust the comission.

I trust the people were a charged as referees.

I interfere in the refereeing, but not the referees. Never!

It's clear message of UEFA:

We need you.

We want you, you make your best job.

Thank you. Good luck to everybody. It was a pleasure to speak to you.

It is my first time I speak to in front of so many of the referees.

I never had a red card. And not tonight. Cheers !!!

Mr. President!

- How are you? - Good, thank you.

- And how are you? - Very good, thank you.

On the field, when you played, you have never remonstrated with the referee.

It was something ...

Once I insulted one in Tokyo, when he disallowed my goal.

You wouldn't believe how I insulted him. You couldn't imagine.

These insults, the worst ones I know, are in German.

He disallowed the best goal of my life!

For an offside. What a goal!

He was ...

My neck was bulging.

There were two referees. One was Wurtz and second was Konrath.

Wurtz, you could talk to him for 45 minutes, and he wouldn't say anything!

And Konrath, you would say: "Mr. Konrath!" he would give immediately yellow card!

I was 18 and I couldn't ever say a word to Konrath.

But I could always say to Wurtz: "What are you doing?"

"Are you stupid or what? you so and ..."

Make them respect you!

If a young player flies to you: yellow card!

He will not to do it again. He will not to do.

You have to do everything to gain respect.

I raise my hand. You see me?

Howard, you haven't seen Mum and Dad for 9 days.

They had to change from the last time.

They became Elton John.

Yes, nice try.

Hey, Mum.

Are you okay?

A beautiful day, isn't it?

- How are you son? - Yes, good to see you.

Good to see you, all right son?

- I'm fine. You are looking well! - Yeah.

Hey, guess what this says. Tell us this evening begins the Euro 2008 for Howard Webb, the policeman.

I'm the working man.

And when I walk the street with Howard.

And when people come up and ask him to sign autographs.

And I think to myself, my son!

They ask my son for the autographs.

And I find it's a very emotionally.

At the beginning you dreamed about it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When I first started, he was in the tribune,

anybody would said anything, he announced:

"It's my boy! You cannot say this!"

I'm very fortunate, because since I was a young boy of 20

I've been involved in football refereeing.

That's my life.

And that's my hobby.

And too my son takes on the same hobby as father is for me fantastic!

Fantastic!

And yes, I'll love it to death.

I'll love it to death.

I just hope that everything will be OK.

- Yeah, yeah. - I'm hoping ...

I've every confidence in them, I really have, you know.

Yeah ...

They do it so well in England.

So I've, you know, every confidence.

Yeah, I hope so ...

It's here.

It's unusual, but the shirt is different.

Come on, boy. Go, go, go.

Damn, look at this!

- Corner. - Free kick. - Corner.

Thanks, guys.

No problem.

- This is not to punish? - Yeah.

- I've shouted from here for it. - Yeah.

Great, well played boys.

Damn!

I'm not sure that is a valid goal.

Aufhauser, the goal was from offside, I've seen. He was on the same line with the goalkeeper.

My son Sean, my oldest son,

has just sent Joanne one SMS from England,

and he said that goal should been disallowed.

That is a offside.

But, I haven't seen on the TV, but ...

That will be interesting.

- Everything OK, son? - Yeah.

- Man, that was offside. - What?

- I guess it was offside. - Did you?

He stood before the goalkeeper.

From my position it didn't look as.

But I have seen on the large screen and got it noticed.

It was close, it was close.

Unfortunately I did not raise a flag. I prefer to avoid it, you see.

- Offside? - I don't know.

- Sure? - I don't know.

- It was repeated. - To me, it's impossible.

I don't know.

As you know, tell me.

Do you think that yellow? He dive or not?

Not.

It's not my fault if he let himself fall.

- This didn't result in a touch of fall, correct? - Yeah.

I think he was looking for the penalty, right?

Yeah.

- We don't give them, like in England. - No.

- But why didn't give them for diving? I don't know. - Yeah.

Foul!

Two minutes left. Come on, boys.

Howard, Howard. Stop it, stop it, stop it.

- OK, which two were? - 18 and 6, a yellow card. 18 and 6.

For me just a reprimand. They have only spoken, or?

Take care with all the linger. Stop with linger.

Don't drag on for shirts.

OK, I stay tuned. Since's go again.

- Penalty. - Penalty.

Stand clear.

Everything is clear.

Stand clear.

If you don't stop, I'll give you a yellow card.

Please.

Oh, no?

Which number please?

White 6th.

The phone call from England.

- Yes, there was a penalty. - Brilliant. Yes!

Good news.

No one is pulling any shirt!

There was nothing! Nothing!

Fucking disgrace!

English referee!

Fucking disgrace!

- You see our problem? - "English referee!"

This is only their frustration.

When they see on TV that there was a clear penalty...

"English referee!"

I have to be honest, Howard.

Your performance tonight was OK.

The match was full under control.

And it's always a pity ...

And I know, I know it's always a pity that you can't do anything for it, but...

The most important situation of the match was the first goal.

That's terrible for the tournament.

And I cannot ignore the pictures shown by television,

to everybody all over the whole world saw.

Overall, it was OK. There were no major problems.

The match was full under control during 90 minutes, no problems at all.

It's only a pity that these things happens.

But that's our life, guys, that's our life.

Sometimes we are the winners, sometimes we are the losers.

We're not losers today, but ...

I cannot ignore it.

And the second point: The penalty was very, very ...