Lost in translation

I was watching some European club rugby a few days ago. Can't remember the teams but it was an Irish v French game. At one point, the ref, who was from England, gave a penalty and felt the misdemeanour sufficient to give the transgressor a jolly good talking to. He called the captain and the player, who happended to be an Afrikanner, over and started telling the captain, in French, what the South African had done wrong. The captain then translated what the ref said to his team mate in English.