thesun.co.uk— ZINEDINE Zidane headbutted an Italian in the World Cup Final over a vile slur on his ill mother Malika, it was claimed last night. Personally speaking I don't blame him for retaliating.
Jul 11, 2006View in Crawl 4
@drwI understand your position but the fact of the matter is that you don't know what the hell you are talking about. Most of my fellow Americans ideas about soccer are based off of what they remember from playing it as a kid on the playground or in a youth league. And of course, that is about as much like real soccer as pop-Warner is like real football. The truth is that soccer is a very demanding sport and there is a lot of contact in the game, but it is of a different nature than what we are used to in American football. I don't think many Americans would call professional basketball players pansies, but their sport is no where near as physical as football. However, it does have a very tight set of rules that determine exactly how physical you can be in the course of a game without committing a foul. Still in basketball there are all kinds of strategies around when to foul, how hard, in what circumstances, and even *gasps* how to "draw a foul".Soccer is no different. It is a contact sport that tightly regulates how violent and dangerous the contact can be. Not every foul results in a card, even some terribly viscous ones. So, players and teams have developed strategies around how they can "draw fouls". Besides you can't have it both ways, you can't call someone a pansy for getting hurt over the tiniest contact in one breath, and then in the next say that they were faking it and get up start playing right away again. Either they are wimps and are hurt, or they are faking it. Since we know that most of the time they are embellishing for some reason maybe you should use your head and try to think about why they might be doing that. Maybe there is some sort of strategy involved? Maybe there is a purpose?Or maybe your head will explode if you try and think about it to much. So, since your knowledge of soccer is obviously extremely limited, and you basically have no idea what you are talking about why don't you just STFU.
Agreed. You play the game, you take the trash-talk. You wanna confront someone, you gotta do it outside the game. You think in the middle of ANY sport guys aren't talking trash? Think again, it's part of the game.Zidane is great, but he should have kept his head.
It's easy to say so when your mother(assuming if you even have one) isn't the one to be admitted to hospital (as I read from the comments about regarding this hospitalisation) and you're not the one to be called whatever that is claimed by the news.
robbh66Jul 11, 2006
Tabloids makes front page here now?
dbstovallJul 11, 2006
@drwI understand your position but the fact of the matter is that you don't know what the hell you are talking about. Most of my fellow Americans ideas about soccer are based off of what they remember from playing it as a kid on the playground or in a youth league. And of course, that is about as much like real soccer as pop-Warner is like real football. The truth is that soccer is a very demanding sport and there is a lot of contact in the game, but it is of a different nature than what we are used to in American football. I don't think many Americans would call professional basketball players pansies, but their sport is no where near as physical as football. However, it does have a very tight set of rules that determine exactly how physical you can be in the course of a game without committing a foul. Still in basketball there are all kinds of strategies around when to foul, how hard, in what circumstances, and even *gasps* how to "draw a foul".Soccer is no different. It is a contact sport that tightly regulates how violent and dangerous the contact can be. Not every foul results in a card, even some terribly viscous ones. So, players and teams have developed strategies around how they can "draw fouls". Besides you can't have it both ways, you can't call someone a pansy for getting hurt over the tiniest contact in one breath, and then in the next say that they were faking it and get up start playing right away again. Either they are wimps and are hurt, or they are faking it. Since we know that most of the time they are embellishing for some reason maybe you should use your head and try to think about why they might be doing that. Maybe there is some sort of strategy involved? Maybe there is a purpose?Or maybe your head will explode if you try and think about it to much. So, since your knowledge of soccer is obviously extremely limited, and you basically have no idea what you are talking about why don't you just STFU.
svpirateJul 11, 2006
Fonally someone who sees Zizu's side of it.
donsmithJul 11, 2006
Agreed. You play the game, you take the trash-talk. You wanna confront someone, you gotta do it outside the game. You think in the middle of ANY sport guys aren't talking trash? Think again, it's part of the game.Zidane is great, but he should have kept his head.
harumphJul 11, 2006
i think materazzi is the loser, he is one of the dirtiest players ever, he should be shunned by anyone who respects the sport.go zidane!
kodeikoJul 11, 2006
It's easy to say so when your mother(assuming if you even have one) isn't the one to be admitted to hospital (as I read from the comments about regarding this hospitalisation) and you're not the one to be called whatever that is claimed by the news.