World Cup Final - Italy vs France

[adriano123]

i think germany or france shud have won the entertainin team germany coz of their gr8 attackin play and players like david odonkor and philip lahm and france shud have coz of ribery zidane and no 1 else.....golden ball shud have gone to cannavaro but he missed by a few points to zidane

 

[Kev]

I dont think we'll ever really know what was said. Channel 4 news last night reported something completely different to that. Its all speculation anyway. Also the kind of thing that goes on all the time in football.

 

[James219]

I heard something about, if the comments are indeed confirmed to be of a serious nature, further action may actually be taken upon Materazzi....that truly is a perfect example of double standards. Sledging is woven into sport, and just because this particular incident was responded to in the worst manner possible and picked up on a public base, the message of 'we're stamping this unruly element out of the game' is being wrongly distributed to the world, as we all know it happens all the time. I'm not condoning Materazzi's words in any shape or form, not that we know what he said or anything, but if he's going to be dealt with following Zidane's retalliation, then FIFA and the national football governing bodies should employ lip readers and station special individual tracking cameras around the field for every single professional fixture....anyway, nothing will end up happening, it's just the aftermath of a major controversy.
How many weeks 'you reckon Zidane would've got had he never retired...?

 

[Indiangod]

It would very unlikely have killed him, nigh on impossible tbh.

It was a penalty, there was clear contact from Materazzi on Malouda's right heel.

The Italian player was trying to avoid him, he accidently caught his leg while trying to avoid him.

 

[James219]

"It is absolutely not true, I did not call him a terrorist. I'm ignorant. I don't even know what the word means," the Italian news agency Ansa quoted Materazzi as saying after the Italian team returned to Rome.

Fair enough, we may never know what he truly said and therefore we can't really make any assessments, but to deny knowledge of what the term means is just ridiculous, and if anything, leads us to believe that what he did say was along those lines.
Anyway, the penalty was probably warranted- true, Materazzi did pull out of the challenge, but that movement was made very late, and hence clear contact was the result.

 

[Sureshot]

The Italian player was trying to avoid him, he accidently caught his leg while trying to avoid him.

Even if he accidently caught him while trying to avoid him it still goes down as a penalty. A foul is a foul irrelevant of whether you meant it or not.

@James.

No footballer would ever admit to intimidation as they'd be torn from ear to ear.

 

[sachin]

Well whatever he said,i personally would have(especially if he said something about my mum being a being a terrorist whore..)thumped him;King hit him.I wouldn't accept such appalling sportsmanship.Even though me punching him would be unsporting....but i say an eye for an eye

 

[manee]

Well IMO, winning the world cup is more of a blow to anyone that a headbutt to the chest

 

[prarara]

BBC Radio Five Live asked for help from a deaf lip reader, Jessica Rees, who read the words phonetically to an Italian translator.

She deciphered the insult as being "you're the son of a terrorist whore" - a translation also carried by many national newspapers in Britain on Tuesday.

The BBC's Ten O'Clock News also called in experts to study the television footage of the incident and determined the following:

Materazzi's first word to Zidane was "no" before he then told him to "calm down".

He then accused him of being a "liar" and wished "an ugly death to you and your family" on the day the Frenchman's mother had been taken to hospital ill. This was followed by "Go f*** yourself".

Zidane's agent, Alain Migliaccio, has hinted that Zidane will soon reveal exactly what was said by Materazzi.

Piara Powar, national co-ordinator for the anti-racism group Kick It Out told Five Live, said: "If there was a racial slur then Fifa needs to act."

Keith Hackett, head of referees in England, said that if it can be proved that Matterazzi racially abused the Frenchman, then Fifa should take retrospective action for "the good of the game."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/w...006/5169342.stm

I don't care what anyone else has to say, if the above actually happened then Zizzou is vindicated in his action. The only way to understand and feel racism is to actually experience it; I've had to deal with its hues (particularly the above kind), and the sheer upwelling of anger caused by it is in some cases unbareable. If anything, it should be Matarazzi, and not Zizzou who should pay the fine; though Zizzou did headbutt Matarazzi, Zizzou had to deal with it by being ejected, but if Fifa does nothing against Matarazzi, then it will only show that it is a pushover to racism.

 

[Kev]

The fact that 2 different BBC experts came up with totally different versions of what was said proves that so called lip reading experts cant be used as evidence. Their interpretations are totally different so cant be said to be accurate.

If however Matarazzi did racially abuse Zidanne this is unacceptable but it DOES NOT excuse Zidanne's actions. He should know that violence never solves such problems and only leads to greater problems.

 

[Sureshot]

14 red cards in his career apparently, that's nearly 5 times as many as Psycho.

 

[sachin]

Who the heck is psycho!Well i saw his headbutt which earned him a five match suspension when playing for Juventus,and that was extremely soft,so i think that should be discounted.There absolutely nothing in that...

 

[Sureshot]

Stuart Pearce Current Man City boss, played 70 odd times for England and spent over a decade at Forest and was later our Player/manager.

 

[prarara]

The fact that 2 different BBC experts came up with totally different versions of what was said proves that so called lip reading experts cant be used as evidence. Their interpretations are totally different so cant be said to be accurate.

If however Matarazzi did racially abuse Zidanne this is unacceptable but it DOES NOT excuse Zidanne's actions. He should know that violence never solves such problems and only leads to greater problems.

Sure Zidane's reaction was 'incorrect', and he was and will be punished for it, but such action rarely goes without being unprovoked. Matarazzi is certainly no saint, and he has a terrible history of holding his hand over the danger button.

 

[sachin]

Well Zidane said today something abaout his mother and sister bveing involved in Materazzi's assualt.

14 red cards in his career apparently, that's nearly 5 times as many as Psycho.

Ahh,did he headbutt alot of people?