People getting carried away with the victimization story.
I get that most of the posters here, who are probably white, look at this as a good opportunity to tilt the racism story on it's head and pretend like it's the world's fault for overreacting as opposed to racism being what it is. Yes, this isn't the worst case of racism we have seen - if we give him the benefit of the doubt, he very well could have not meant any harm by it.
Having said that, there's two things to consider here:-
1) Racism is very real. Racism in Europe is very real, and racism in football is very real. Within this context , you cannot be making a loose comment like identifying a person by his skin color, in the capacity one of the OFFICIALS in the game. When there is such an immense effort to battle racism, the referees need to be held to the highest standard, and they need to be trained that certain things are just off the table - and this is clearly one of them. I would expect any mature person who is in his position to understand the context and not refer to someone as 'the black guy'.
2) This tendency to move the argument to an extreme and exaggerate to the point where we start claiming that "we cannot use the word black now" or "if someone refers to me as white should I be offended" is quite old, and just unnecessary. It's a fact that black and other minorities have been the ones that have faced discrimination and racism by Caucasians for generations and hence there doesn't exist the concept of 'white shaming' someone. I am not going to get into this point further, there's enough out there one can read and watch about this, but yeah, just wanted to point that out.
Mate, this was just a communications misunderstanding. The ref could have been more careful. That's it.
So, here's the thing about a supposed racial incident.
There are some typical scenarios:
1) Clear racial insult. As if the ref said, "the nigger did it". In Romanian nigger is "negrotei". Te ref didn't use that offensive word.
2) Not a racial insult is when one actor in the conversation does not intend to racially insult another person, but the other person interprets it this way. Usually because of a cultural and linguistic difference. Many Latin languages, like Spanish, Romanian, Italian have the same word designating a black person. Negro, Negru, Nero. See the resemblance? They all mean black, although they sound closer to nigger. And since Latin language precedes the "nigger" word by thousands of years I don't see why it should change.
So, when 2) happens, it's simple. Guy A talks with Guy C (to be noted I skipped letter B), explains that it was a language error and that what he said is not a racial slur, shake hands and that's all. In a normal world.
If Guy C still takes offense, guy A politely apologizes. If Guy C is still pissed off, even after hearing the explanation and the apology, then he'll gonna have to live with the horror that languages of the world are different.
Except that was a joke, this guy's career is probably over.