I've spent the past 3 hours listening to a clean feed from the 15 minutes of madness in the game between PSG and Basaksehir on Tuesday. And here's what I found out. A short thread.
min 9:15 Okan is upset with a yellow card decision. He screas from his bench: "1st foul! 1st foul! It's not basketball". Coltescu, the 4th official, tries to temper him. Okan to Coltescu: "This is not Romania! We are coming [from] Turkey!"
Coltescu in the communication system: "Tavi [talking to assistant Sovre], I told you, this guy is really naughty!"
13:13"Book him! The black one! It's not possible to do something like that! Go and see who he! The black one over there! It's not possible to do something like that"
These words belong to assistant Sovre, and not to Coltescu. You can see Sovre pointing towards the bench to indicate Hategan whom he should book from the big group around the dugout.
The players start screaming towards Coltescu, whom WE DON'T know at this point what he told whom. Webo is mad with him using the word 'Negro'. Even if Coltescu used the word, it was 'NEGRU', which in Romanian means 'black', it's the colour 'black'.
Webo asks Coltescu 'why you say 'negro'? why you say 'negro'?' repeatedly. Hategan, the ref in charge of the game, tries to calm down the people around him.
After they are told by the refs that 'Negru' means 'black' in Romanian, Demba Ba comes in. Also, Okan intensifies his protests. Demba focuses on 'why do you identify him by his colour?' and that's the message he repeats constatly.
Coltescu tries to explain to the PSG players that he used the word 'black'. Spirits seem to calm down.
min 14:35 A voice calls for 'the [UEFA] delegate' to come down.
min 14:40 Okan: "In my country, Romania is gypsy (!!!). I can't say gypsy!"
min 15:25 Voice: "This is Champions League, not Romanian League"
min 15:28 Ref Hategan: "My friend, we speak Romanian between us!"
min 15:35 Mbappe tells Hategan about Coltescu: "Get him out!"
min 15:50 Hategan tries to explain to Demba Ba that 'Negru' is just the colour black in Romanian. Demba insists Coltescu identified Webo by his colour and is very vocal about it.
min 16:05 Demba Ba asks his colleagues to leave the pitch for the first time.
min 16:13: Mbappe to Hategan: "Get him [Coltescu] out!"
min 16:27 Okan to Coltescu: "The guys don't accept you. We don't accept you! we don't want you! You are racist! You are racist, we don't want you!"
min 16:60 Demba goes on with his message: "Ref [talking to Hategan]! When he [Coltescu] talks about a white guy he says 'this guy'. If he sees a black guy, he says 'this 'negro'"
min 17 Hategan tries to convince Okan and Demba that Coltescu didn't say 'negro'.
min 17:29 Gulbrandsen to Tuchel: "He made a racist comment! He said it!"
Tuchel appeared to encourage the players to continue the game. This is a personal comment of mine based on his gestures.
min 17:50 Voice from the staff of Basaksehir talking to Hategan: "We can't accept this! He is unlucky because of this word! Please, take him out and continue the game!"
min 18:03 Hategan tells Neymar how 'negru' goes in the Romanian language.
min 18:06 Demba confronts Coltescu telling him: "Why don't you say this guy and you say this black guy? You don't do the same when it's a white guy!"
min 18:47 The match delegate comes down and has a talk with Hategan and Coltescu.
Hategan: "Sebi [Coltescu], tell him exactly what you said!"
You can't hear Coltescu's explanation. Tried to for at least 120 times.
The only thing I do hear is at min 19:15. Coltescu: "Negru means black."
min 19:37 Demba asks his team mates to leave the pitch, while refs continue talking to Basaksehir officials and the UEFA delegate.
min 20:55 Coltescu explains to Leonardo what happened. Okan comes in: "You are racist. You are racist. You say the word 'negro'. You are racist!"
min 21:30 Okan to Coltescu: "You sent him because of the colour, yes!"
min 21:45 A PSG voice to Hategan: "It's a hard choice, it's not to make things easy! It's just to say you addressed it" [the incident] - referring to sending Coltescu to the stands!
min 21:43 A voice screaming in Spanish: "Hablamos mucho! La puta!" (We are talking too much! The whore!)
min 22:00 A voice in Romanian, probably Coltescu: "It's common language! [referring to the word 'negru', translated as 'black']"
min 22:15 The players of Basaksehir are leaving the pitch. One of them screams: "Fuck off!" Another: "You have to respect! This is not football!"
min 22:45 Both teams go back to their locker rooms. Hategan to Leonardo: "We wait for 10 minutes. We come back if they want to continue the game." Leonardo says something. Hategan: "I don't know, I don't know! It's not up to me!"
This is what I've been working on in the past hours. I did it so you have a clearer image of what happened at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday evening. Thanks for reading up until the end, for those who have. :) And to the others for not cursing me for this endless tweet! Cheers!
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