Official World Cup thread :: Greatest show on Earth

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Originally Posted by cancerinform

I didn't say they dive to get a rest, see above ;)

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Originally Posted by cancerinform

Sometimes I have the feeling they do it to get a break. Think about a big soccer field and you need to run, concentrate, fight with others and kick a ball.

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Riiiiiiiiiiight! ;)

does anyone know what Materazzi said to Zidane?

Zidane, apparently, is blaming something Materazzi said for provoking him, no one else knows what. But it's just a cop out, who cares what Materazzi said, in football everything has been said to provoke opponents, it's a constant stream of digs and insults. Zidane is the only one to blame for the assault, it doesn't matter what was said, he lost it and physically assaulted another player, he deserved to be sent off.

He's been one of the world's greatest players but now he'll always be remembered for this, for letting his country down.

Just watched the incident on youtube, looks like the only person consolling him after he got the card was the Italian keeper, buffon. Weird.

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Originally Posted by aversion

Zidane, apparently, is blaming something Materazzi said for provoking him, no one else knows what. But it's just a cop out, who cares what Materazzi said, in football everything has been said to provoke opponents, it's a constant stream of digs and insults. Zidane is the only one to blame for the assault, it doesn't matter what was said, he lost it and physically assaulted another player, he deserved to be sent off.

He's been one of the world's greatest players but now he'll always be remembered for this, for letting his country down.

Just watched the incident on youtube, looks like the only person consolling him after he got the card was the Italian keeper, buffon. Weird.

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Didn't they play together in Italy?

No idea, national football bores me, I only become a fan when internationals are played :)

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Originally Posted by aversion

No idea, national football bores me, I only become a fan when internationals are played :)

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You're such a woman! ;)

I have the pants to prove it.

he called him a "dirty terrorist"

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/news...NCE-ZIDANE.XML

Soccer players are animals. That's whay rugby is so much better, anyway.

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Originally Posted by Reuters News

WELLINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - New Zealand has reacted with indifference to Jerry Collins's unplanned call of nature before the Tri-Nations match against Australia on Saturday.

The loose forward was caught on camera on bended knee, discreetly relieving himself on the pitch moments before kickoff.

Assistant New Zealand coach Steve Hansen described the incident as unfortunate.

"If you're a male and you're about to play a test match and you're seconds away from kickoff and you get the urge to want to go to the toilet -- what do you do?" Hansen said.

"Do you rush off and let the game start with 14 men or do you try to be as discreet as you can be and hope that cameramen use common sense and don't go showing it to everyone on the screen."

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Link

*off to search for pics of said story*

*EDIT* No pics, but there is a video on a "popular viral video" site with the word Tube in it. I'd post a link, but don't want to get blamed for posting pR0n again.

Just had a French reporter on the telly, seems like it wasn't racism but just a plain 'ole "yo momma" type jibe that pushed him over the edge.

What Matarazzi didn't know is that Zidane's mother is seriously ill right now, imagine that you're stressed about a huge game like this, worried about your mother and then some idiot calls her a whore right in your face. Unless you're in that situation I dont think you can say how you'd react.

I dont see it as so bad, they lost because Trezeguet missed his pen. End of.

At the end of the day people who love and know their football will always remember ZZ for his grace, skill and just being a joy to watch....not for the headbutt.

What I find interesting is that even after Zidane gave him the head butt, the majority French fans continued to boo Italy every time they got the ball. Speaking of, why were there so many French fans compared to Italian fans? They are both next door to Germany and we know Italy is obsessed with the game, so why weren't they there?

apparently Zidane had seen it done before.
http://neszidane.ytmnd.com/

nothing happens jAQUAN.

funny game http://widelec.org/zidane.html

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Originally Posted by dudeqwerty

nothing happens jAQUAN.

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Try it in IE, FF fails on most of those.

BBC's italian "lip reader", he said something like this

"We all know that you're a son of a terrorist whore." and "I hopethat you and your family will suffer a painful death and go to hell".

It's also a theory that he said something bad about Zidane's previous coach, who died of cancer just before the world cup...

But Zidane will tell his agent his version of the story in one of the coming days, and we might get to know what happened.

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Originally Posted by SpockBert

Just had a French reporter on the telly, seems like it wasn't racism but just a plain 'ole "yo momma" type jibe that pushed him over the edge.

What Matarazzi didn't know is that Zidane's mother is seriously ill right now, imagine that you're stressed about a huge game like this, worried about your mother and then some idiot calls her a whore right in your face. Unless you're in that situation I dont think you can say how you'd react.

I dont see it as so bad, they lost because Trezeguet missed his pen. End of.

At the end of the day people who love and know their football will always remember ZZ for his grace, skill and just being a joy to watch....not for the headbutt.

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Rubbish! They lost because of the coach and zidane... if the coach hadn't taken Henry off and Ziddy had stayed on, that would have been two pennas that they would have scored! (Even if Zidane did almost fluff his earlier penelty).

Why the hell did he take Henry off so close to pens? Even if he is injured, he can hang back, not make runs and wait it out till he takes his kick.

Knowing the story behind the headbutt I do kind of feel sorry for Z. Its something he shouldn't have done, but I can now see why he did it.

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Originally Posted by Markp.com

Rubbish! They lost because of the coach and zidane... if the coach hadn't taken Henry off and Ziddy had stayed on, that would have been two pennas that they would have scored! (Even if Zidane did almost fluff his earlier penelty).

Why the hell did he take Henry off so close to pens? Even if he is injured, he can hang back, not make runs and wait it out till he takes his kick.

Knowing the story behind the headbutt I do kind of feel sorry for Z. Its something he shouldn't have done, but I can now see why he did it.

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But the only pen France missed was Trezeguet's. Its not like Zidane would have replaced him as pen taker, headbutt/sending off or no sending off Trez still would have taken a pen and still missed.

Henry came off because he was injured thats all.

The greatest show on earth is over. All in all it was an interesting world cup.
Especially in the group stages - we were treated to some vintage attacking football resulting in a flurry of goals. But sadly in the knockout stage the coaches took over resulting in Defensive football with hardly any goals and most of the games went to penalties.

It would have been great if some Latin American team like Brazil or Argentina would have reached the semis, or even some African team would have been good. The two best European teams playing attacking football - Holland and Czech. Republic also went out and we got to see boring football in the semis. and finals.

Its a long wait till the next world cup !!!

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Originally Posted by SpockBert

But the only pen France missed was Trezeguet's. Its not like Zidane would have replaced him as pen taker, headbutt/sending off or no sending off Trez still would have taken a pen and still missed.

Henry came off because he was injured thats all.

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Those two are higher up the pecking order... so would have taken their pens first. Leaving enough time for the Italians to put one over the bar! ;)

And now we know the truth!!! Read On....

"Since Sunday evening the whole World has been debating what Italian defender Marco Materazzi said to Zinedine Zidane to make the retiring Frenchman react in the way he did. The French captain, in his last ever professional game, thrust his head into Materazzi's chest in Sunday's World Cup Final resulting in a red card and shame for Zidane. Today, with the help of Italian lip-reader Arturo Belladini, we can reveal what drove Zidane to self destruct;

Materazzi was seen to hold Zidane's shirt on the edge of the penalty box in extra-time at which point Zidane said

"if you want my shirt so bad you can have it"

Materazzi responded

"I dont want your shirt you m***** f*****. you're a f****** old man"

As they jog away Zidane is seen to laugh at this and it is unclear how he responded due to him having his back to the TV camera

Materazzi then hit a volley of abuse

"you should've quit 2 years ago, you're a f****** has-been"

"m***** f*****! your mum is a f****** muslim terrorist and you are to, f*** you old man f*** you"

"old man, this arena is not for you anymore m***** f*****"

Zidane carries on jogging away

'you are only good enough for Newcastle now' - It's at this very point Zidane turned and head-butted him."






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