VIDEO. Amateur rugby: images of the impressive fight between Pamiers and Toulouse, match stopped for an alleged blow on a referee
This meeting of the 15th day of Federal 1 between Ariégeois and Haut-Garonnais did not come to an end, Sunday January 29. The players were sent back to the locker room after less than an hour of play.
The scene caused misunderstanding and anger among supporters and rugby fans. Sunday, January 29 afternoon, the meeting between Pamiers and the TOEC TOAC FCT (Toulouse) was marked for the 15th day of Federal 1 (5th division) by a fight between players, which degenerated into a general fight.
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The meeting did not go to an end, the referee sending everyone back to the locker room shortly before the hour mark.
The situation escalated irreversibly after the rear of Pamiers received a yellow card. “I don’t understand, then explained Cédric Gatti, the Appamean captain. There is certainly a fight but, afterwards, we see a referee come to get involved in the debates, turn on (sic) the players. I’ve never seen that, a referee in the middle of a fight trying to ‘headbutt a player’. We’ll see what happens.”
The specialized website rugbyamateur.fr obtained the images of the fight, a scene filmed from a stadium stand to discover here.
In these images, you can clearly see a referee falling to the ground after contact with a Pamiers player. It would be, according to our colleagues, the Tarnais Thierry Gastou, who officiated Sunday at the touch. It seems that he is touched by the rear of Appame Olivier Bertro.
Several Pamiers players, however, declared after the match that the referee had “thrown to the ground claiming a whim, which is false”. Still according to these players, the refereeing body would have had “rough management” of the meeting, and the linesman in question would have been “obtuse and even unpleasant throughout the game”. “This referee simulated theatrically, his fall is memorable” even added a player from Pamiers.
The case of this meeting will soon be dealt with by the Disciplinary Committee.