fist: im half french, so not objective one can safely say
I think its important to view the incident in perspective. ZZ has had
an excellent career but has had two other similar incidents previously
in his career. for sure a player of his caliber will always be a
target for foul play, thats for sure. so he lost his head 3 times
then one could argue. the timing for the 3rd one could nt have been
worse, its stuff that movies are made of. or jokes..
because it reminds me of this joke that holds quite some truth to it.
i ll recite the morale of the joke: IF Da Vinci, after all his
excellent jobs, were to shag a sheep, he d be remembered as a sheep
shagger, not the true artist he was. that holds truth and is relevant
to this. however its not totally fair as you might agree?
I also think since none of us know what that ass materazzi served we
cant really judge WHY this happened. for sure we can say his reaction
was insane, it was. but I think one day it will come up and a few of
us will have to admit: shit, I d do it too.
are the italians worthy winners of the WC? nope. they lost against
the USA, the french didnt lose ONE game, apart from final of course.
the italians went into 2nd round meeting and beat "great" nations as
austr. and ukraine. then beat zee germans, that was their first game
against a widely recongnised great side. on the way they were awarded
a "funny" penalty against oz in last minute, ukraine got a right
beating and zee germans lost overtime. luck?or just being italians?
hard to jugde.
the french were robbed during their 2 first games, a hand ball
stopped a goal that would have made a win against the swiss. a
disallowed goal that was a goal against korea. then they beat togo,
spain, brazil and portugal to get into final. one will argue that the
goal against spain was from a dogdy freekick. I dont. henry was
obstructed by puyol and although his reaction was "over the top" (maybe
after the first games he decided to "join the club" of cheaters to
get what he s entitled to) an obstruction is still a freekick. henry
s reaction doesnt void the situation as a freekick. then they beat
brazil, the best game of the WC for me. portugal got beaten with a
bit of luck maybe? barthez could have let it slip.
in the final they were the better team over 120 minutes. the french
penalty is NOT a dive. no way. and the rest is history as they say.
like the euro championship when the greek won Im left with a feeling
football is gone wrong again.
obviously a team cannot win the WC being shit. I ackn. that. but
deserved? not in my book.
Eric le Bleudy annoyed! :-)
On Jul 10, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Terry Emmott wrote:
Some one told me who speaks italian that mazaratti called zidane a
terrorist, or that is what she said she lip read.
That was also on the radio this morning. Apparently Zidane says
he's a non-practising Muslim so it was a racial sort of remark. Bit
of an extreme reaction for that though IMO. You'd have thought he'd
called him the misbegotten son of an Algerian whore at the very least.
I think football
would be all the better for a bit more scrapping between players,
as baker used to say "not enough blatant off the ball chinnings".
Very true. One of the highlights of my Leeds-watching life was
seeing Gary Kelly pole-axe some Mackem twat in a League cup-tie
with as sweet a right hook as you're ever likely to see. Completely
missed by the ref and his linesmen as well.
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