Was he right???????

Woody · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:20 am Post subject: Was he right???????

Zinedine Zidane has claimed repeated insults about his mother and sister spurred him to head-butt an Italian in Sunday's World Cup final. The French captain declared "I'm a man first" to explain his reaction but refused to say the exact words. A 10-man France later lost the match, and football's most coveted prize, 5-3 on penalties.

It had been reported Italian defender Marco Materazzi called the Algerian-born star the "son of a terrorist whore".

The Italian admitted using insulting

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language but strongly denied using the word terrorist.

Zidane said: "(Materazzi) grabbed my shirt and ... I said to a stop, to stop pulling my shirt and I said to him, 'If you want, we'll change it at the end of the match'.

"He said, he said some words that were very difficult and words he repeated many times, which is sometimes more difficult to accept than just gestures.

"It was something that happens very quickly."

Zidane refused to repeat the insults but said: "The words were very serious. The things that are very personal.

"It mentioned my mother and my sister, very hard words. You hear them once, you hear them twice and the third time.

"I'm a man first and foremost. There are words I would have preferred to have received a punch than hear what I heard."

The now retired footballer apologised to children who saw the attack but said he did not regret it because "that would mean he was right to say what he said".

Zidane may still be stripped of the Golden Ball award for being voted the best player at the World Cup, ahead of Italians Fabio Cannavaro and Andrea Pirlo.

FIFA boss Sepp Blatter said a decision would be made after a probe into the incident.

Zidane's mum has meanwhile reportedly praised her son for his actions. Malika Zidane said she was "utterly disgusted" at the abuse he allegedly received

Yes and no , me tinks he was wrong to do that on the field of play , but I cant blame him for doing it , he should have waited until after the game.

tornadoSam · Lightweight Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 349 Offline

It looks to me as if Materazzi said something like 'I hope your mother dies a painful death' which is apparantly really insultive in Italian. Incidentally his mother was taken ill to hospital that very day.

Gives Zidane no excuse either way, Matterazi's comments were perhaps worse because of his mum being in hospital, but how was Materazzi to know this. Insults go on all over the world at all levels of football, its part of the game.

Zidane has always been a nasty piece of work, been sent of more times than Roy Keane you know...

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Should have waited untill after the game and then gave him a good slap

Peely · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:57 am Post subject:

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No - Zidane was wrong! Whatever was said by Materazzi (and I'm not gonna condone that either) - Zidane and every other player in the world has heard very similar throughout their career ( I only played in the Insurance Leagues and Croydon Sunday League and I got it!), so if he's anything of a professional, he would have ignored it and won the game for his team.

Anyway, why should we take the word of someone who's been sent off more times than Roy Keanescum!

Peely · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:47 pm Post subject:

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