Revisiting the Zidane-Materazzi headbutt
If you didn’t spent a part of your life jacking off to Zidane’s ball-skills, this article may confirm what you suspected last summer - that Zidane was an idiot for reacting to Materazzi’s jibes.
Materazzi called Zizou’s sister a whore, and considering that she was seriously unwell at the time (I think), Zidane took particular exception to that insult. It’s a bit similar to how McGrath reacted when Sarwan insulted his wife when she was undergoing treatment for a brain tumour - over the top and definitely not acceptable.
Regardless of whether you think that such insults are acceptable or not in the banter that accompanies our sport(s), the reality is that they ARE a part of the game and you have a lot of players using verbal jousting as a means to psyche themselves up as well as conduct psychological warfare on their opponents.
Given the situation, the stage, and the timing - Zidane’s reaction was unfortunate at best and downright stupid if you want to be honest about it.
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Materazzi only said that he’d rather take Zidane’s jersey off Zidane’s sister.
Whoever started that crap about Materazzi saying stuff about Zidane’s sister or mother being a whore is a prick and an idiot.
People that blame Materazzi are planks.
I’m an Inter fan, yes, but that isn’t my reason for saying this.
then what is your reason?
there is no other reason youre Intermilan fan
N, what happened was even Matarazzi and Zizou have said is that Mattarazzi was tugging on Zidanes shirt and pulling it, Zidane said “If you want my shirt so much, have it after the match”, The Italian then said back “Id rather take your sister”.
Yes, Zizou was an idiot for the headbutt, I think that if he didnt get that red France would have won the World Cup.
Also, Zidane was offered to lay for Sydney FC against LA Galaxy toward the end of this year or early 2008 at the 80,000 Stadium Australia.
Already, Juninho has signed for Sydney for the season as a marquee player (A player outside the salary cap) and Sydney want Zizou to sign for them for the match against Becks Galaxy…He’ll get 120,00 for 90- mins…
I think he has rejected 3 times still..
look, nobody knows what atchully was said apart from those 2, so we shouldnt get worked up about it, cus we dont know what happend.
Gooner is right a woman read their lips to see what they said and thts what they said