Understood, but people talk shit all the time during games. Hell, I have said worse things during pick up basketball games with nothing happening. I guess we are trying to rationalize an irrational act, which is virtually impossible.
BTW, put up the link where you found that. I want to send it to some people. Thanks.
BTW, put up the link where you found that. I want to send it to some people. Thanks.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=4&ObjectID=10390750
conflicting accounts & explanations by his agent & various lip readers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/11/wcup11.xml&pPage=/core/Matt/pcMatt.jhtml
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/dr_z/07/10/zidane/
conflicting accounts & explanations by his agent & various lip readers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/11/wcup11.xml&pPage=/core/Matt/pcMatt.jhtml
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/dr_z/07/10/zidane/
From NZ Herald:
"An Italian lip-reader told the BBC that Materazzi said: "I wish an ugly death to you and all your family." Zidane is thought to have just received news that his mother is in ailing health.
According to the lip-reader, Materazzi then said: "Go f*** yourself." "
From SI:
"I don't blame him for getting sore. Almost every time I could find him on the screen, he had someone tugging at his shirt, tripping him or messing with him in some sneaky way."
"An Italian lip-reader told the BBC that Materazzi said: "I wish an ugly death to you and all your family." Zidane is thought to have just received news that his mother is in ailing health.
According to the lip-reader, Materazzi then said: "Go f*** yourself." "
From SI:
"I don't blame him for getting sore. Almost every time I could find him on the screen, he had someone tugging at his shirt, tripping him or messing with him in some sneaky way."
Its a freaking game, if you have to resort to verbal slander to be better then your opponent then you need to look in the mirror and get a different job.........of course Zidane should have held his cool and in the best scenario scored the winning goal and then rubbed it in the pathetic italian players face, which of course then we would have all the Italian followers calling out Zidane for this autrocious act of unsportsmanship........
Fvck Zidane! :finger::finger::finger:
Seems like every reporter out there is trying to justify ZZ's action, and making Matterazzi out to be the bad guy. This is not the first time ZZ acted stupid (1998 against a Saudi Arabian player), yet people are making him a saint.
ZZ's head butt could have cracked Matterazzi's sternum for all we know... yet the press is still glorifying the guy. Regardless of what was said, you just don't do stupid thing like that and hang your team out to dry...
And the Arab Muslim insult attributed to Matterazzi? Have to wonder whether the Saudi Arabian dude that was on the receiving end of ZZ's Red Card in 1998 was Italian Catholic?
uppy:uppy:uppy:
Fvck the French... Tired of the Frenchies bandwagon... and ZZ's sainthood. for the past month. Good riddance.
Seems like every reporter out there is trying to justify ZZ's action, and making Matterazzi out to be the bad guy. This is not the first time ZZ acted stupid (1998 against a Saudi Arabian player), yet people are making him a saint.
ZZ's head butt could have cracked Matterazzi's sternum for all we know... yet the press is still glorifying the guy. Regardless of what was said, you just don't do stupid thing like that and hang your team out to dry...
And the Arab Muslim insult attributed to Matterazzi? Have to wonder whether the Saudi Arabian dude that was on the receiving end of ZZ's Red Card in 1998 was Italian Catholic?
uppy:uppy:uppy:Fvck the French... Tired of the Frenchies bandwagon... and ZZ's sainthood. for the past month. Good riddance.
goodcall said:
This is a crock!
Quote from The Times U.K:
"The Times enlisted the help of an expert lip reader, Jessica Rees, to determine the precise nature of the dialogue that caused Zidane to react in such a manner. After an exhaustive study of the match video, and with the help of an Italian translator, Rees claimed that Materazzi called Zidane “the son of a terrorist whore” before adding “so just f*** off” for good measure, supporting the natural assumption that the Frenchman must have been grievously insulted."
They hired a fvking lip reader that didn't understand Italian, then have an Italian translator to translate the LIP READER???? Hilarious. :missingte:missingte:missingte
MarinersFan said:
Where have you been son? :monsters-
That's what you call mind-game. It's part of the game, whether it's Baseball, BBall, Football (our brand), Hockey, Boxing, Softball regardless you've gotta have thick skin....
Ever heard of Pat Riley, MJ, Dennis Rodman, Bill Lambeer, Mike Ditka, Bellichick, The Tuna??? they all play mind-game.
uppy:tbonestk said:Where have you been son? :monsters-
That's what you call mind-game. It's part of the game, whether it's Baseball, BBall, Football (our brand), Hockey, Boxing, Softball regardless you've gotta have thick skin....
Ever heard of Pat Riley, MJ, Dennis Rodman, Bill Lambeer, Mike Ditka, Bellichick, The Tuna??? they all play mind-game.
you tihnk what they do to blacks in spain and italy are mind games to. its blatant racism pretty much.
dr03 said:
Nobody condones racism, and nobody knows for certain what was said between ZZ & Matterazzi at the time. But whatever was said, still does not justify ZZ's action.
It's trash-talking as part of sports that we're talking about. You hear trash-talk all the time, whether in your local "Y" gym or on an NFL field, if you can dish it out, you can surely take it as well.
