"I'm straighter than that" in response to a line-out where the ball didn't travel down the middle between the two teams as it should, is a legendary line, as Nigel is gay. Makes all of us Welsh very proud, does Nigel. 5:45 - Sliding on astroturf may hurt but we'll never know as all Rugby pitches are real grass, grown and maintained by groundskeepers. In the rain and Winter they can become mudbaths but that's all part of the fun in Rugby!
When Lee Evans mentioned the small referees in rugby taking control of the big guys. Well this man is that man. The ultimate ref in rugby. He respects the players and they respect him.
About 10 years ago I was working for Admiral insurance and Nige was guest speaker at our AGM and cards had been left outside the conference room for us to submit questions to him and a colleague posed the question “is it true that you and Lee Byrne are living together?”, so Nige read this and paused and said “no it’s not ………… I kicked him out three weeks ago” 😆
Nigel is the best eveer. He suffered with low self esteem and was conflicted about his sexuality. it lead to him becoming very depressed and when he got wind that a news paper were going to run a story. He took a shot gun out to the fields and came close to killing himself but i believe was stopped in time by his father. He told the governing rugby board of Wales that he was gay and was going to withdraw from the game. They said 'No you're not' and collectively surrounded him with support and respect. managers, players and official all said, we don't care a toss about your sexuality you're a good man and the best in the game. Since then other players have come out as gay and nobody cared. It took until this year for a young football player to come out as gay. Two very different worlds.
He is Welsh, and you can't normally referee a game involving you country. He was so well respected, and so fair, he refereed a Wales game. Countries all around the world knew if he was the ref, it would be a fair well managed game,
Love him. Love the way he conducts himself. Love the way he takes no shit from players twice his size. He a proper ref. He's respected by players all over the world. He was the GOAT.👑👑👑👑
They respect him not only because he makes good and fair decisions but also because he respects them too. He’s a disciplinarian but he also properly explains himself to them. He doesn’t just say “that’s my decision and you have to accept it”, he says “that’s my decision, this is why, and you have to accept it”. That bit in the middle is really important for the mutual respect.
Nigel Owens is a certified legend. Throughout his time refereeing he displayed great knowledge, love and respect of and for people and the game of rugby. An outstanding role model for officials of any sport.
Best rugby ref ever and respected by all the players At the start when the ball was thrown it, it’s meant to be straight between the two sets of players and Nigel is openly gay so that’s why he said “I’m straighter than that one” A yellow card in rugby the man goes off to the sin bin for 10 minutes and a red is they are off for the rest of the game
I’d like to suggest Pierluigi Collina he has retired now, he’s an Italian Football (Soccer) referee. He’s not as vocal as Nigel Owens but he was always in charge of the game mainly with just a look and the players calmed down because they all new better
Legend of the game. Iconic. Oh, and he calls it soccer because if he said rugby wasn't football he'd be lying. Because the full name of the game is rugby football. Precision of language.
I imagine it's already been mentioned but in rugby the yellow card is more than just a warning; it means that the player goes off the pitch for 10 minutes. As with Association Football, the red car means the end of the match for that player.
Retired too soon. Legend, look at how the players respect him, he tells them off like naughty school boys and these big burly guys take it. That don’t happen unless there is respect, and he earned that respect because of how he refs the game, completely fair and down the middle. I wish football/soccer refs would start behaving like this but they won’t and are still influenced by the players.
Ik people who say that they wish footballers had the same respect for refs clearly never watch football and see just how terrible refs are. I think rugby has clearer contact rules which helps. Above the waist foul below the waist is pretty much anything goes
@@samuelpinder1215 I watch and play both sports, and in football players constantly try to influence the referee and in some cases it works, if all players had respect for the referee then they would not do that and therefore they would respect the ref to call the game down the middle but when footballers start crowding the referee or rolling around on the floor like they have been shot by a sniper from row z or blatantly dive because another player had the audacity to try and win the ball to try to influence a ref to call a foul it shows the lack of respect in the sport, see it week in week out in football when playing it or watching on tv. Go watch match of the day tonight and the proof will be there for my point of view.
@@serbowdster2311 I regularly watch football and I'm convinced the refs dont know the rules. Someone could get lightly tapped but not enough to get them off their feet and get a foul but knocked off their feet and not get one. The fans are just as bad I remember luton vs chelsea in the fa cup luton fans shouted handball after rüdiger chested the ball down even the ones right next to where it happened
as a 57 y/o American female and avid rugby fan...Nigel is a legend!! favorite quote..'I'm straighter then that' (as Nigel is a gay man) He's a blast to watch ref.
A couple things you may have missed: 2:00 "I'm straighter than that one". He's gay... so.. 10:39 "Dive that like that and come back here in two weeks and play". There was a football match being hosted at the stadium in a couple of weeks, Nigel was insinuating that he had dived (simulated a foul) like in football. 11:24 - The colour of the cards: it's similar to football in that a red is you're thrown from the game, and the yellow is a "warning", but the yellow carries more weight in rugby due to the "sin bin": essentially, if you get a yellow card then you have to leave the field for 10 minutes. That's why he says things like "do that again and someone's going to go for 10 minutes".
We're taught to respect the ref as one of the basics of rugby. He's not wrong comparing it to football as an opposite. There you see zero respect for refs, and the diving and antics the players get up to is pathetic. Football refs could easily get hold of the game like this but they don't.
A quick fix for the bitching and shouting at the ref would be for football to do what happens in rugby - if a penalty (or in football a free kick) is awarded but the side keeps arguing the ref marches forwards 10 yards. If they keep arguing its another 10 yards. In football the referees would not need to do that too often to shut the drama queens up.
We LOVE our Nigel Owens. A Welsh national treasure. He is my sporting hero. He is the only person in the UK who is allowed to called Football "Soccer'. There have been signs in rugby matches with his comment, 'This is not soccer!'. For USA, it means you DO NOT argue with the referee... EVER! Shut your mouth and get on with the game. If you don't like it, switch to football, and play at the football stadium 500 metres away 3:5813:16 In some matches, he has a live camera (think GoPro) attached to his chest, which can be transmitted live on TV. Think a live camera on an F1 car; that's what he's got on his chest. 11:26 Yellow is a 10 minute sin-bin; they get off the pitch, like ice hockey penalty box. A red is sent off for the rest of the match.
Probably the best referee in rugby, although he’s retired. If you get into understanding rugby, watch Nigel Owens’ programme about that weeks refereeing decisions.
To explain the comment at 10:40 this game was played during the Rugby World Cup, but it was taking place at a stadium that normally hosts soccer games. I'm not a rugby fan myself, but like you, I wish more sports had refs like Nigel.
At 5:40 he could have literally said « no taunting no trash talking this is not NBA here » 😂 8:50 it’s like boys waiting in line at the principal’s office 😅
you're spot on about what yellow and red cards are in football, in rugby union it's simillar but instead of a yellow being just a warning you leave the field for 10 minutes before you're allowed back on. A red is still a permanent sending off
The times when some 6'8" second row says "Yes Sir, Sorry Sir" like a chastised 12 year old schoolboy are my personal favourites. You always knew it would be a good game when Nigel was ref, irrespective of the actual score outcome. (And yes yellow is a temporary off the field for ten minutes, red is off for the rest of the game.)
The yellow and red cards are similar to football. A red card is sent off and you take no part in the rest of the game and your team will be a man down for the rest of the match, a yellow card is sent off the pitch for 10 minutes also known as being sent to the sin bin this also means your team will be down a man for during this time.
A proper,professional sport,with respectful athletes,who respect the ref,and the game,unlike,the overpaid talentless prima donnas in football,who at the moment are being shown up by the england ladies team,come on girls! Euro final now,show the lads how its done ✊✊✊✊✊
Lookee mush, pete face, they'll do what they can get away with, esp since there's big pound notes involved. " When i wer a lad", sure, they did it then, but in them days it was all about ego. They do i now for cabbage, then, it was "bragging rights", 90% of em were from "moneyed stock"......( In the U.K, ca'nt speak for anywhere else.)
Hi king boomers, greetings from thurles co Tipperary in Ireland, love your reactions you are so open to other cultures it's great to see, at about the 157 mark the ref said I am straighter then that when the throw in was taken and it wasn't straight, he was making a reference to himself being gay!! the first ref in the history of world rugby to come out as gay and continued to have a long career after that moment in his life, and in my opinion the best ref that's graced the game!!!
He refereed both Domestic and International games. For Domestic teams UK 🇬🇧, he uses the term football and for International games he uses the term soccer.
In rugby a yellow card is more than a warning. The player is off the field for 10min reducing the team to 14 men. The warning of 10min in the vid is a threat of a yellow card if the offence is repeated.
Nigel has a strong welsh accent so some times it’s hard to follow.hes a legend in rugby,as famous as top rugby players. Controls the game by just he’s presence ...top bloke
To say how respected he is I doubt any Englishman,Frenchman, Scotsman or Irishman would object to him reffing a Wales game vs our national team. That is a very rare compliment in these isles. Top bloke.
In football, a yellow card is a warning, two yellows is a red which is sent off, as is a straight red card. In Rugby, a yellow is ten minutes off the field, red is a send off.
a couple of things that might've already been mentioned: In Rugby, the referee wears a camera just like a police camera so you get those up close shots "I'm straighter than that" to the throw early in the vid...yeah, he's openly gay...
Reason Owens said football sometimes and soccer sometimes is because, he refers to football as football when talking to teams who call football football. He said soccer to teams who call football soccer.
Nice one KB👍 Nigel is a legend and commands so much respect for his knowledge and fairness, you were correct about the cards and if you were unsure about his remark 'I'm straighter than that one' it was reference to the ball being off center during the throw from the line and Nigel is gay😂✌️🇬🇧✌️🇺🇸🙏
you definitely missed a lot due to all the rules of rugby, but he is an amazing referee, one of the best there has ever been ever in the world (and is from my country) and all the players respect him because he’s so fair and he treats the players like people and he even jokes with them too
11:32 Yellow means the player goes off for 10 minutes. Red mean the player goes off for the rest of the game. However, World Rugby is currently trialling a new rule, where a red card instead mean the player goes off for 20 minutes. The idea is that this avoids a team having to play a significant portion of the game with less players than their opposition.
The respect Nigel Owens gets from everyone shows what a great man he is. If you can find it there is a documentary called What Went Down where he talks about his life,I respect him even more after watching it, a very funny honest guy. You should watch Joe Marler too,your kind of humour.
3:20 "I appreciate that it's just a mistiming and nothing very dangerous, and you weren't deliberately trying to do it, so it's a penalty only this occasion but you must be careful with your timing."
In rugby the ref is God. What he says goes. If a ref thinks a player is being disrespectful he can also punish him in several ways: i) Moving the offending team 10 meters back. ii) Reversing a penalty so it's given to the opposition. iii) Carding a player. A yellow card means a player is sent to the sin bin for 10 mins. A red card means he's sent off for the remainder of the game. He may miss further games too depending on the offense. This keeps the players respectful and stops them arguing the toss about every decision. Your team won't be happy if they're penalised because you can't shut your mouth. Normally only the team captains can speak to the ref regarding decisions, although the ref will often pick out any player involved in an incident to talk to along with his captain. This stops the ref from being surrounded and intimidated by a crowd of angry players as happens in football. Traditionally a lot of rugby refs started off as PE teachers at public* schools which tend to have strict discipline. A lot of players also attended public school. Consequently a lot of rugby refs talk to players as if they are naughty school boys!😄 *Public schools are in fact expensive, fee paying, private schools, as opposed to State schools which are free and attended by the majority of children. The oldest public School is Rugby School in the town of rugby. Three guesses which school invented the sport.😀
Fantastic ref and well respected. The 01:56 comment, he's an openly gay ref. 10:38 - come back in two weeks was a reference to the Scotland football team playing at the same ground in two weeks. As for the card system - a yellow means 10 mins for the player in the "sin bin", red is off.
The differences between Soccer and Rugby Soccer player catches his fingernail: rolls around on the floor in agony Rugby player gets half his face ripped off: "'tis a scratch" and carries on
yellow is a "warning" - but also means a hockey-style sin bin of 10 minutes ... your team plays 10 minutes a man down red is the same as soccer - your guy is removed forever from the field, and you must fight on with a man less A straight red is usually reserved for any deliberate head-inducing fouls - such as grabbing your opponent in mid-air, and smashing them head-first into the ground. Or - deliberately stamping somebody on the head Or - grabbing somebody around the neck, and dragging them onto the ground Or - stamping on somebody's spine when they're on the ground etc.
The great Welsh Nigel Owens. He’s a hero in Wales and was the first referee to come out. He’s the pinnacle of referring in rugby. He’d have been an amazing teacher. You kind of need to understand rugby to get him at his best. I’m straighter than that one 😂 best NO quote
In rugby a yellow card means the offending player is sin binned and has to sit on the side lines for 10mins. when that time has passed he can come back onto the field. Whilst sin binned you cannot be replaced so your team will be a player down for 10 mins. A red card is when the offending player get sent off for the rest of the game and the player cannot be replaced.
The captain whom he points out to that "you'll always understood me before" is I think captain of the Georgian rugby team. ( Georgia, by the Black Sea.) So there might be some excuse for a language barrier...
Really entertained by your vids thanks for posting. You should get into Rugby it’s like fusion between American football and basketball most Americans love it when they get into it.
Rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by thugs and divas. Mike Tindall, former England captain is married to Princess Anne’s daughter Zara.
"I'm straighter than that" in response to a line-out where the ball didn't travel down the middle between the two teams as it should, is a legendary line, as Nigel is gay. Makes all of us Welsh very proud, does Nigel. 5:45 - Sliding on astroturf may hurt but we'll never know as all Rugby pitches are real grass, grown and maintained by groundskeepers. In the rain and Winter they can become mudbaths but that's all part of the fun in Rugby!
4 of the 13 teams in the English Premiership play on AstroTurf - Gloucester, Newcastle, Worcester and Saracens.
@@stuartmcivor2276 Yep, you're right, sadly. We've even got one in Wales now (Cardiff). Things have clearly changed since the 70's, when I played!
Most of the big stadiums have hybrid pitches.
@@pureholy I live and learn. Thanks for the info.
Tony also don't forget the muddy pitch turned to ice with a hard frost the night before... Ouch!.
When Lee Evans mentioned the small referees in rugby taking control of the big guys. Well this man is that man. The ultimate ref in rugby. He respects the players and they respect him.
i love evans play on it
About 10 years ago I was working for Admiral insurance and Nige was guest speaker at our AGM and cards had been left outside the conference room for us to submit questions to him and a colleague posed the question “is it true that you and Lee Byrne are living together?”, so Nige read this and paused and said “no it’s not ………… I kicked him out three weeks ago” 😆
Nigel is the best eveer. He suffered with low self esteem and was conflicted about his sexuality. it lead to him becoming very depressed and when he got wind that a news paper were going to run a story. He took a shot gun out to the fields and came close to killing himself but i believe was stopped in time by his father. He told the governing rugby board of Wales that he was gay and was going to withdraw from the game. They said 'No you're not' and collectively surrounded him with support and respect. managers, players and official all said, we don't care a toss about your sexuality you're a good man and the best in the game. Since then other players have come out as gay and nobody cared. It took until this year for a young football player to come out as gay. Two very different worlds.
Nigel is a Welsh national treasure and respected all over the world.
I have argued that he should have been a candidate for sports personality of the year.
Un très grand arbitre très pédagogue sur le terrain très respectueux et très respecté. Merci a ce grand homme ce très grand arbitre du rugby.
"There's no need to call me 'Sir', I'm from West Wales!"
The humility of a great man!
Cheers and thanks Boomster!
"I'm straighter than that one" is pretty funny.
He is Welsh, and you can't normally referee a game involving you country. He was so well respected, and so fair, he refereed a Wales game. Countries all around the world knew if he was the ref, it would be a fair well managed game,
Truth.
Love him. Love the way he conducts himself. Love the way he takes no shit from players twice his size. He a proper ref. He's respected by players all over the world. He was the GOAT.👑👑👑👑
They respect him not only because he makes good and fair decisions but also because he respects them too. He’s a disciplinarian but he also properly explains himself to them. He doesn’t just say “that’s my decision and you have to accept it”, he says “that’s my decision, this is why, and you have to accept it”. That bit in the middle is really important for the mutual respect.
Nigel Owens is a certified legend. Throughout his time refereeing he displayed great knowledge, love and respect of and for people and the game of rugby. An outstanding role model for officials of any sport.
Best rugby ref ever and respected by all the players
At the start when the ball was thrown it, it’s meant to be straight between the two sets of players and Nigel is openly gay so that’s why he said “I’m straighter than that one”
A yellow card in rugby the man goes off to the sin bin for 10 minutes and a red is they are off for the rest of the game
Wish I would of read this before posting the same thing ha ha
Nigel Owens is also a respected livestock farmer, and his other half is a teacher. Says a lot.
I’d like to suggest Pierluigi Collina he has retired now, he’s an Italian Football (Soccer) referee. He’s not as vocal as Nigel Owens but he was always in charge of the game mainly with just a look and the players calmed down because they all new better
Collina was bloody scary as well. He looked like the vampire in the film 'Nosferatu'!
That’s so true 😂😂
I remember when he refereed a WC game between England and Croatia. When his name was announced the crowd cheered.
@@Castiwr He wasn't as pretty as that - at least when he looked at you in that way of his.
When Nigel Speaks, you listen 🙌
Glad you covered Nigel owens. From my home country in Wales, UK. One of the best rugby refs ever! 👌
Indeed, the best in the world, before he retired.
watching this quickly before its taken down.
The greatest rugby ref of all time. Utmost respect.
Legend of the game. Iconic.
Oh, and he calls it soccer because if he said rugby wasn't football he'd be lying. Because the full name of the game is rugby football. Precision of language.
His control of any game he is ref off can never be doubted .
I love Nigel Owens, and I'm not even a rugby fan 😂😂😍
It's such a dangerous game you need a general who can control these behemoths.
I imagine it's already been mentioned but in rugby the yellow card is more than just a warning; it means that the player goes off the pitch for 10 minutes. As with Association Football, the red car means the end of the match for that player.
Retired too soon. Legend, look at how the players respect him, he tells them off like naughty school boys and these big burly guys take it. That don’t happen unless there is respect, and he earned that respect because of how he refs the game, completely fair and down the middle. I wish football/soccer refs would start behaving like this but they won’t and are still influenced by the players.
exactly!
Hear, Hear!
Ik people who say that they wish footballers had the same respect for refs clearly never watch football and see just how terrible refs are. I think rugby has clearer contact rules which helps. Above the waist foul below the waist is pretty much anything goes
@@samuelpinder1215 I watch and play both sports, and in football players constantly try to influence the referee and in some cases it works, if all players had respect for the referee then they would not do that and therefore they would respect the ref to call the game down the middle but when footballers start crowding the referee or rolling around on the floor like they have been shot by a sniper from row z or blatantly dive because another player had the audacity to try and win the ball to try to influence a ref to call a foul it shows the lack of respect in the sport, see it week in week out in football when playing it or watching on tv. Go watch match of the day tonight and the proof will be there for my point of view.
@@serbowdster2311 I regularly watch football and I'm convinced the refs dont know the rules. Someone could get lightly tapped but not enough to get them off their feet and get a foul but knocked off their feet and not get one. The fans are just as bad I remember luton vs chelsea in the fa cup luton fans shouted handball after rüdiger chested the ball down even the ones right next to where it happened
as a 57 y/o American female and avid rugby fan...Nigel is a legend!! favorite quote..'I'm straighter then that' (as Nigel is a gay man) He's a blast to watch ref.
Love Nigel Owens! From New Zealand❤❤❤❤❤❤
"ill allow it but those balls were clearly in your hand" 🤣🤣🤣 had me wheezing !
A couple things you may have missed:
2:00 "I'm straighter than that one". He's gay... so..
10:39 "Dive that like that and come back here in two weeks and play". There was a football match being hosted at the stadium in a couple of weeks, Nigel was insinuating that he had dived (simulated a foul) like in football.
11:24 - The colour of the cards: it's similar to football in that a red is you're thrown from the game, and the yellow is a "warning", but the yellow carries more weight in rugby due to the "sin bin": essentially, if you get a yellow card then you have to leave the field for 10 minutes. That's why he says things like "do that again and someone's going to go for 10 minutes".
"Christopher.... thank you'!
"christopher.............." 😂🥰
We're taught to respect the ref as one of the basics of rugby. He's not wrong comparing it to football as an opposite. There you see zero respect for refs, and the diving and antics the players get up to is pathetic. Football refs could easily get hold of the game like this but they don't.
A quick fix for the bitching and shouting at the ref would be for football to do what happens in rugby - if a penalty (or in football a free kick) is awarded but the side keeps arguing the ref marches forwards 10 yards. If they keep arguing its another 10 yards.
In football the referees would not need to do that too often to shut the drama queens up.
We LOVE our Nigel Owens. A Welsh national treasure. He is my sporting hero.
He is the only person in the UK who is allowed to called Football "Soccer'. There have been signs in rugby matches with his comment, 'This is not soccer!'. For USA, it means you DO NOT argue with the referee... EVER! Shut your mouth and get on with the game. If you don't like it, switch to football, and play at the football stadium 500 metres away
3:58 13:16 In some matches, he has a live camera (think GoPro) attached to his chest, which can be transmitted live on TV. Think a live camera on an F1 car; that's what he's got on his chest.
11:26 Yellow is a 10 minute sin-bin; they get off the pitch, like ice hockey penalty box. A red is sent off for the rest of the match.
Tbf to Nigel that was not a massive flip phone, it was a smart phone with flip down case!😂
Probably the best referee in rugby, although he’s retired. If you get into understanding rugby, watch Nigel Owens’ programme about that weeks refereeing decisions.
I love Nigel he's a legend fair but honestly I miss him ❤❤
Absolute legend! Love Nigels ref skills. And if they argue with the ref, he can penalise them by moving play 10 yards up the pitch!
Meters ;-)
To explain the comment at 10:40 this game was played during the Rugby World Cup, but it was taking place at a stadium that normally hosts soccer games.
I'm not a rugby fan myself, but like you, I wish more sports had refs like Nigel.
At 5:40 he could have literally said « no taunting no trash talking this is not NBA here » 😂
8:50 it’s like boys waiting in line at the principal’s office 😅
Nigel Owens, there will never be someone else like him.
you're spot on about what yellow and red cards are in football, in rugby union it's simillar but instead of a yellow being just a warning you leave the field for 10 minutes before you're allowed back on. A red is still a permanent sending off
The times when some 6'8" second row says "Yes Sir, Sorry Sir" like a chastised 12 year old schoolboy are my personal favourites. You always knew it would be a good game when Nigel was ref, irrespective of the actual score outcome. (And yes yellow is a temporary off the field for ten minutes, red is off for the rest of the game.)
Yellow = 10min sinbin
Red = sent off
The yellow and red cards are similar to football. A red card is sent off and you take no part in the rest of the game and your team will be a man down for the rest of the match, a yellow card is sent off the pitch for 10 minutes also known as being sent to the sin bin this also means your team will be down a man for during this time.
The best union ref and he's welsh🏴🏴
A proper,professional sport,with respectful athletes,who respect the ref,and the game,unlike,the overpaid talentless prima donnas in football,who at the moment are being shown up by the england ladies team,come on girls!
Euro final now,show the lads how its done ✊✊✊✊✊
Lookee mush, pete face, they'll do what they can get away with, esp since there's big pound notes involved. " When i wer a lad", sure, they did it then, but in them days it was all about ego. They do i now for cabbage, then, it was "bragging rights", 90% of em were from "moneyed stock"......( In the U.K, ca'nt speak for anywhere else.)
Well said
The best bit is calling Chris Robshaw "Christopher" like he's getting told off by his dad or something.
Yellow is a 10 min sin bin.
Red is “Enjoy our early bath….”
Hi king boomers, greetings from thurles co Tipperary in Ireland, love your reactions you are so open to other cultures it's great to see, at about the 157 mark the ref said I am straighter then that when the throw in was taken and it wasn't straight, he was making a reference to himself being gay!! the first ref in the history of world rugby to come out as gay and continued to have a long career after that moment in his life, and in my opinion the best ref that's graced the game!!!
He refereed both Domestic and International games. For Domestic teams UK 🇬🇧, he uses the term football and for International games he uses the term soccer.
In rugby a yellow card is more than a warning. The player is off the field for 10min reducing the team to 14 men. The warning of 10min in the vid is a threat of a yellow card if the offence is repeated.
King of rugby ref’s
Nigel has a strong welsh accent so some times it’s hard to follow.hes a legend in rugby,as famous as top rugby players. Controls the game by just he’s presence ...top bloke
To say how respected he is I doubt any Englishman,Frenchman, Scotsman or Irishman would object to him reffing a Wales game vs our national team. That is a very rare compliment in these isles. Top bloke.
Thank you for watching Nigel
So enjoyed your reactions
I do understand not knowing the game
Watch more rugby
In football, a yellow card is a warning, two yellows is a red which is sent off, as is a straight red card. In Rugby, a yellow is ten minutes off the field, red is a send off.
This guy is a bloody legend !
CYMRU AM BYTH! national treasure here in Wales!
Nigel said one word that captures him completely:"'Christopher!"
a couple of things that might've already been mentioned:
In Rugby, the referee wears a camera just like a police camera so you get those up close shots
"I'm straighter than that" to the throw early in the vid...yeah, he's openly gay...
The weird camera angle is a body cam on his chest and the flip phone wasn't a old flip phone, the case he had on it flipped downwards.
Reason Owens said football sometimes and soccer sometimes is because, he refers to football as football when talking to teams who call football football.
He said soccer to teams who call football soccer.
Nigel Owens is such a great ref, we English would trust him to officiate an England v Wales Final!
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Nigel can sing as well! He does commentary in Welsh for local games now.
Now, I watched it all and enjoyed it, I gave this a thumbs up, and I wish for some more of this, is that clear, good, then carry on!
Nice one KB👍 Nigel is a legend and commands so much respect for his knowledge and fairness, you were correct about the cards and if you were unsure about his remark 'I'm straighter than that one' it was reference to the ball being off center during the throw from the line and Nigel is gay😂✌️🇬🇧✌️🇺🇸🙏
you definitely missed a lot due to all the rules of rugby, but he is an amazing referee, one of the best there has ever been ever in the world (and is from my country) and all the players respect him because he’s so fair and he treats the players like people and he even jokes with them too
The ball boy getting the yellow card - after the match, Nigel gave his shirt to the boy and signed it. It's now pride of place in his school's gym
11:32 Yellow means the player goes off for 10 minutes. Red mean the player goes off for the rest of the game. However, World Rugby is currently trialling a new rule, where a red card instead mean the player goes off for 20 minutes. The idea is that this avoids a team having to play a significant portion of the game with less players than their opposition.
The Cell phone is in a carrying folder for protection whilst in a pocket, it flips open to use.
The respect Nigel Owens gets from everyone shows what a great man he is. If you can find it there is a documentary called What Went Down where he talks about his life,I respect him even more after watching it, a very funny honest guy.
You should watch Joe Marler too,your kind of humour.
Absolute legend. Miss Nigel Owens no nonsense refereeing.
No need to call him "Miss" just because he's gay.
It's not a flip phone, it's a smartphone with a leather cover/protector that folds down.... ya muppet 😀😂
in rugby, a yellow card is 10 minutes off and red is 2 weeks (2 matches/games)
3:20 "I appreciate that it's just a mistiming and nothing very dangerous, and you weren't deliberately trying to do it, so it's a penalty only this occasion but you must be careful with your timing."
In rugby the ref is God. What he says goes. If a ref thinks a player is being disrespectful he can also punish him in several ways:
i) Moving the offending team 10 meters back.
ii) Reversing a penalty so it's given to the opposition.
iii) Carding a player.
A yellow card means a player is sent to the sin bin for 10 mins. A red card means he's sent off for the remainder of the game. He may miss further games too depending on the offense.
This keeps the players respectful and stops them arguing the toss about every decision. Your team won't be happy if they're penalised because you can't shut your mouth.
Normally only the team captains can speak to the ref regarding decisions, although the ref will often pick out any player involved in an incident to talk to along with his captain. This stops the ref from being surrounded and intimidated by a crowd of angry players as happens in football.
Traditionally a lot of rugby refs started off as PE teachers at public* schools which tend to have strict discipline. A lot of players also attended public school. Consequently a lot of rugby refs talk to players as if they are naughty school boys!😄
*Public schools are in fact expensive, fee paying, private schools, as opposed to State schools which are free and attended by the majority of children. The oldest public School is Rugby School in the town of rugby. Three guesses which school invented the sport.😀
He's the benchmark for refereeing, all sports should use him as the standard!
"I'm straighter than that one." Genius.
You dont argue with a rugby referee
Nigel is a national treasure for us in Wales... Absolute lad
Being English I am a huge England Rugby fan, Nigel Owens is the only Welsh Rugby person I Iove!! He is a national treasure!
Fantastic ref and well respected. The 01:56 comment, he's an openly gay ref. 10:38 - come back in two weeks was a reference to the Scotland football team playing at the same ground in two weeks. As for the card system - a yellow means 10 mins for the player in the "sin bin", red is off.
He seemed to know every Rugby player he refereed. U.K. or international.
The differences between Soccer and Rugby
Soccer player catches his fingernail: rolls around on the floor in agony
Rugby player gets half his face ripped off: "'tis a scratch" and carries on
yellow is a "warning" - but also means a hockey-style sin bin of 10 minutes ... your team plays 10 minutes a man down
red is the same as soccer - your guy is removed forever from the field, and you must fight on with a man less
A straight red is usually reserved for any deliberate head-inducing fouls - such as grabbing your opponent in mid-air, and smashing them head-first into the ground.
Or - deliberately stamping somebody on the head
Or - grabbing somebody around the neck, and dragging them onto the ground
Or - stamping on somebody's spine when they're on the ground
etc.
He's a legend!
Yellow is ten minutes off in rugby and red is straight off it’s just a warning in football
Hell of a tenor too
In Rugby, Yellow card means you go to the "sin bin" (penalty box) for 10 minutes, Red is off
Best rugby ref in the world. Not retired but much missed.
"I've made my decision. This is why. That is the end of the conversation".
A yellow card means you spend 10 minutes in the bin, red card is a sending off
I don't think the phone itself is a flip phone, but it's a leather type case that's hinged at the bottom
The great Welsh Nigel Owens. He’s a hero in Wales and was the first referee to come out. He’s the pinnacle of referring in rugby. He’d have been an amazing teacher. You kind of need to understand rugby to get him at his best.
I’m straighter than that one 😂 best NO quote
In rugby a yellow card means the offending player is sin binned and has to sit on the side lines for 10mins. when that time has passed he can come back onto the field. Whilst sin binned you cannot be replaced so your team will be a player down for 10 mins. A red card is when the offending player get sent off for the rest of the game and the player cannot be replaced.
The captain whom he points out to that "you'll always understood me before" is I think captain of the Georgian rugby team. ( Georgia, by the Black Sea.) So there might be some excuse for a language barrier...
Could be ,or he is French...
Proper legend
He takes part in a channel called "Whistle Watch" since he's retired, you should check it out
Never heard oh him but he sounds like a legend lol.
Really entertained by your vids thanks for posting. You should get into Rugby it’s like fusion between American football and basketball most Americans love it when they get into it.
That’s just a smart phone with one of those magnetic leather covers.
Rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by thugs and divas. Mike Tindall, former England captain is married to Princess Anne’s daughter Zara.