10 July, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I watched the World Cup final last night. I find it astonishing that so many people are up in arms over Zidane and his red card incident. Perhaps it did cost France the game and I can understand fans being upset about that. But the actual incident? Who cares! I swear, listening to the BBC commentators, if I hadn’t seen the head-butt myself, I would have assumed that Zidane had pulled out a gun and shot the other guy dead. Such outrage over a non-issue. He’s forever shamed! His legacy is ruined! How ridiculous. It was a stupid thing to do, but we all do stupid things sometimes. Get over it.
Tags: World Cup, Zidane
Anglofille said @ 12:27 pm | World Cup |
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Idd, the whole world seems to be in shock or something…
Like you say, we all make mistakes, no big deal
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Not necessary shameful. He has made himself the story of the WC final.
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I’m afraid I’ll have to disagree on that one!! I could not believe my eyes last night. A respected, experienced professional head-butting someone in the chest????? That kind of assault is virtually unheard of in football. Rugby on the other hand…….
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i don’t understand what’s so shocking about it? that sort of thing happens in american sports all the time. i’ve seen a lot worse than that.
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there is an old saying (don’t know who said it!):
‘Football is a game played by gentleman and watched by thugs. Rugby is a game played by thugs and watched by gentleman’
I think this probably why people are so shocked. Footballers don’t tend to indulge in violent behaviour as a rule. For rugby players it is a pre-requisite!!
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I’ll take your word that football players aren’t violent, though I wonder what the Italian player said to Zidane to have him react like that. There are some nasty rumours floating around.
From what I saw of football players during the World Cup, they are a bunch of hysterical little brats. I’ve never seen such dramatics and whining. It was disgusting.
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I didn’t see the incident, but football is generally more civilised (read: non-violent) than most American sports. Players don’t commit flagrant fouls like that very often. Though I think what makes it shocking is that it was Zidane - a consumate professional at the most critical moment of his career. He’s human - but I think people forget that he is too.
As far as all the ridiculous dramatics and playacting and hysterics - I agree, this tournament was rife with ‘em, and it left a bad taste in the mouth. The refs had said they were going to crack down on diving, but I saw NO evidence of that.
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Also, I think rugby (what I’ve seen, anyway) is one of the most civilised sports going! The respect and deference shown to the referees is really astounding.
The rest, of course, is a melee’…
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that is true they do treat the referees with more respect, but they do get up to some pretty violent antics. i always remember at uni, the rugby team had the most disgusting initiation ceremony that you could possibly think of. The footie team was, in comparison, very civilised.
