World Cup Football

miqi23 · Post 09 Jul 2006, 22:46

I may be paranoid but did'nt it look like a setup? Honestly, I have heard so many rumours about Italy being involved in some sort of setup scandal or something like that but after watching todays boring final I thought it was a setup lol.

Viera, Henry and Zidance sneaked away I guess lol.....

Massive Corruption etc etc lol I dont know

Tp · Post 09 Jul 2006, 23:30

Maybe he doesn't want to be remembered as a great footballer?

Principessa · Post 09 Jul 2006, 23:49

ITALIA!!! I'm so happy that they won.

But what did Zizou do? What a scandal! How can he do that in his last match??

bhall · Post 09 Jul 2006, 23:49

Man, that was a really bush league move on Zidane's part.

saam · Post 10 Jul 2006, 00:30

YES YES YES.......

Vasco · Post 10 Jul 2006, 17:04

I wonder if the italian dude provoked him and zidane, knowing that this was his last game, decided to not let him go unpunished.

Whatever the reason for Zidane's headbutt, he will still go down as one of the greatest players in the last 10-20 years. Ronaldinho still has a long way to go to achieve the same level as zidane did.

Spencifer_Murphy · Post 10 Jul 2006, 18:23

If you look at the replay you can see that Zidane is held back by the italian player, then the two of them talk and Zidane is smiling, as Zidane ran off the Italians mouth can be seen moving again, at which point Zidane turns around with a sturn face and head-butts the player.

SOMETHING MUST have been said to make Zidane's mood switch like that. Whatever it was I bet the Italian deserved it - not that that excludes Zidane from any blame - he shouldn't have done it end of.

Sawtooth-spike · Post 10 Jul 2006, 20:26

yeah i am guessing what was said was Pure filth. Maybe something to do with his mother and a goat?

Its not a good way to end your career.

Other than that it was a good match for somebody who does not care who wins. Was really odd i was working on the door of my bar and we had a load of italian school kids in another part of the building, They Went Mental.

Tp · Post 10 Jul 2006, 20:52

Doesn't matter what the Italian said, Zidane's actions were inexcusable.

Sawtooth-spike · Post 10 Jul 2006, 21:27

I agree he should never of done that, but i would like to know his reason.

bhall · Post 10 Jul 2006, 21:54

I'd like to know how Zidane gets the Golden Ball after all this. His exclusion probably cost his side the match!

johny · Post 11 Jul 2006, 00:12

also it isn't a golden ball behaviour

JimmyK · Post 11 Jul 2006, 00:22

Yeah... I know, and yeah, that behaviour shouldn't be tolerated, but you can't exactly just blame Monsieur Zidane totally.

I've heard several rumours about what the Italian guy said, but by far the one I've heard the most involved calling Zidane's mother a 'whore', and given that his mother was apparantly ill at the time, I feel some sympathy for the guy.

He is still in many eyes the man of the tournament, and that's probably true.

johny · Post 11 Jul 2006, 00:37

obviously the italian guy told something but in that level of proffesionality you can't just hive him a headbutt, specially in a WC final. I just don't agree with zizou reaction and with fifa award

Venom · Post 11 Jul 2006, 02:35

http://widelec.org/zidane.html