Zidane set to comment on red card on French television at 1900 BST on Wednesday

[ottawaguy]

2 year suspension haha, you are having a laugh.


his apology shows the class of Zidane, he did not go too far into what Materazzi said in order to protect him in case it was something racist, he only said "very personal and concerned his mother and his sister".

I believe Zizou, let him keep the golden ball

Are you the one having a laugh? If Zidane was a lesser player no one would care how insulted he was. Materazzi didn't have to say whatever it was that he said but I'm sure it's not the first time he has said something like that before but IT IS the first time some coward turned around and headbutted him. Honestly who headbutts someone, use your fists, we are not hippos.

 

[ottawaguy]

wow, you are one dumb fellar...

How am I dumb, care to elaborate?

 

[donovan929]

Are you the one having a laugh? If Zidane was a lesser player no one would care how insulted he was. Materazzi didn't have to say whatever it was that he said but I'm sure it's not the first time he has said something like that before but IT IS the first time some coward turned around and headbutted him. Honestly who headbutts someone, use your fists, we are not hippos.

You're using coward a bit openly.

 

[Drvar]

How am I dumb, care to elaborate?

just take your last comment for example. you think it would be better if Zidane beat the hell out of Materazzi with his fists?

also in the first comment, you say "how clever" that Zidane waited till the play was on the other side. he didnt wait for sh*t, the insults came at that time, if you watched the videos, you can see Materazzi talking sh*t the whole time they are walking back, then Zidane just snaps and headbutts him.

 

[ottawaguy]

Everyone talks of how classy Zidane is but this is simply not true, on the field he shows his lack of class (nearly 20 red cards in his career). I'm simply wondering what the reaction would be if Zidane got away with the headbutt and france won the World Cup, cause that was obviously his plan.

 

[donovan929]

Everyone talks of how classy Zidane is but this is simply not true, on the field he shows his lack of class (nearly 20 red cards in his career). I'm simply wondering what the reaction would be if Zidane got away with the headbutt and france won the World Cup, cause that was obviously his plan.

Obviously it must have been since he was thinking about that

 

[RUSI]

Everyone talks of how classy Zidane is but this is simply not true, on the field he shows his lack of class (nearly 20 red cards in his career). I'm simply wondering what the reaction would be if Zidane got away with the headbutt and france won the World Cup, cause that was obviously his plan.

You're a moron.

Way too biased to participate in this discussion.

obviously his plan ??

Yeah, I am sure he planned before the match to head butt him.

 

[Drvar]

Everyone talks of how classy Zidane is but this is simply not true, on the field he shows his lack of class (nearly 20 red cards in his career). I'm simply wondering what the reaction would be if Zidane got away with the headbutt and france won the World Cup, cause that was obviously his plan.

how the f*ck was that his plan? did he look around suspiciously before hitting Marco, to see if the referees were watching? no he didnt, the man just f*cking snapped, stop searching for extra dirtiness in his action. let me ask you, would you care about anything, if someone called your mother an islamist (or whatever religion your mom belongs to) whore? and lets add to that, that your mother would be seriously ill. the only thing running through your mind at that point would be to f*cking smash the daylights out of the guy who said it. Zidane is not a robot, hes a human being.

 

[ottawaguy]

No one even knows exactly what Materazzi said, but what we do know is that most of his jabs were when the two players were close to each other at the edge of the penalty area. Then after a 5 second pause Materazzi told Zidane to f off, the a few seconds later Zidane decids to headbutt the guy. Zidane had time to cool down and not let the words affect him, brush them off like most players do, but he his a hothead so he decided to retaliate by suprising Matrix with a quick turn around.

Remember we still do not know what was said, just because Zidane said it was "very bad" doesn't mean anything. What is Zidane's idea of very bad ne ways. I admit Materazzi was wrong, it definetely was not the first time he or other players have talked smack to opponents and will not be the last. Please just admit that Zidane was also wrong, because the majority of players would not have headbutted their opponent in that situation.

 

[Num Lock]

Are you the one having a laugh? If Zidane was a lesser player no one would care how insulted he was. Materazzi didn't have to say whatever it was that he said but I'm sure it's not the first time he has said something like that before but IT IS the first time some coward turned around and headbutted him. Honestly who headbutts someone, use your fists, we are not hippos.

yes dude like i said before Materazzi is pure class on and off the pitch, everytime he touches the ball he sets the world alight.....

you may think what you want but that expulsion didn't cost us anything, to win a football match you need to make more goals than the other team which we didn't, and if it goes to PKs you need to have more luck than the other team, no PK was guessed correctly but Treze had bad luck. Your hate towards our hero is amazing, so what he had a flaw which manifested itself on the final game of his footballing career?, he alongside that wonderful generation gave us our first world cup and won an amazing euro cup where they showed that they were better than the rest during the whole tourney, yet again during the wc 06 he showed how above the rest he was at 34 mind you even in his rage .

i laughed at him gettin the golden ball considering he was robbed of it in '98, and seriously if they gonna give it to somebody else at least give it to some offensive minded player like Pirlo at least, not to a defender, it was sad enough that fifa gave it to kahn in '02, not because what he did during the final but because it shows how sad the state of football is that you cannot find an attacking player to give an award to.

 

[ganxxxter]

At the end of the article Blatter suggests that Zidane is innocent until proven guility. WTF is that crap, doesn't the video prove him guility. Why do we need an investigation? Words are exchanged between players all the time, but since the idiot Zidane decided to have a spell of roid rage Materazzi may be punished.

you refer to the freedom of speech? i know, you may say anything you want and it is materazzi's right to say whatever he wants just the same way as i can present my opinion about you italian scums and your fu**ed up, homo nation.

 

[Drvar]

No one even knows exactly what Materazzi said, but what we do know is that most of his jabs were when the two players were close to each other at the edge of the penalty area. Then after a 5 second pause Materazzi told Zidane to f off, the a few seconds later Zidane decids to headbutt the guy. Zidane had time to cool down and not let the words affect him, brush them off like most players do, but he his a hothead so he decided to retaliate by suprising Matrix with a quick turn around.

check this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zy3YbEiYMc&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b

and tell me, when exactly does Materazzi stop talking? about 0.5 second before the hit. so stop making up facts on your own.

 

[Silencer]

Well it seems that Zizou appologised for his behaviour on sunday and asks forgiveness to all children who saw it, there is no excuse and he shouldn't have done it but Materazzi was insulting his mother and sister in 'very strong words' well leave that to Materazzi
Anyways if Materazzi is not appologising of course Zizou does cause that's the kind a guy he is pure class well done Zidane you legend!
Next time give him a headbutt in his face

 

[ottawaguy]

i don't care about the incident, both players were wrongf in this situation it is just the angel status everyone puts on Zidane. I don't not hate zidane, he is a great player and I'm sure he is a nice guy but to use the words "classy" and "Zidane" in the same sentence after this incident (not an isolated incident either) is simply inapropriate. In my mind you can't be called classy and then go around headbutting people. You all say he didn't swear back to Materazzi, which makes Zidane sooooo classy, but in my mind actions speak louder than words.

 

[Num Lock]

i don't care about the incident, both players were wrongf in this situation it is just the angel status everyone puts on Zidane. I don't not hate zidane, he is a great player and I'm sure he is a nice guy but to use the words "classy" and "Zidane" in the same sentence after this incident (not an isolated incident either) is simply inapropriate. In my mind you can't be called classy and then go around headbutting people. You all say he didn't swear back to Materazzi, which makes Zidane sooooo classy, but in my mind actions speak louder than words.

exactly ZZ was red carded for violence 3 times among his 14 expulsions for club and country.

ZZ may have not kept his cool but he never did something like what Matrix did to Sorin for example

how many players has Matrix injured?

 

[ganxxxter]

i don't care about the incident, both players were wrongf in this situation it is just the angel status everyone puts on Zidane. I don't not hate zidane, he is a great player and I'm sure he is a nice guy but to use the words "classy" and "Zidane" in the same sentence after this incident (not an isolated incident either) is simply inapropriate. In my mind you can't be called classy and then go around headbutting people. You all say he didn't swear back to Materazzi, which makes Zidane sooooo classy, but in my mind actions speak louder than words.

let me present my opinion about you:
go and fu** calderoni, you nazi bastard

 

[ottawaguy]

exactly ZZ was red carded for violence 3 times among his 14 expulsions for club and country.

ZZ may have not kept his cool but he never did something like what Matrix did to Sorin for example

how many players has Matrix injured?

As I said, Matrix is wrong in the situation, I have never been a fan of him even though he plays for Italy and Inter (both of whom I support) i would definetely said that Zidane is a classier player than Matrix, frankly 99.5% of players are classier than Matrix. That still doesn't put Zidane on the level of "PURE CLASS" which seems to be everyone favourite phrase to describe Zidane. Zidane is not classy, get that through your heads people. Being a great player doesn't make you pure class!

 

[ottawaguy]

let me present my opinion about you:
go and fu** calderoni, you nazi bastard

Saying Zidane was wrong by headbutting someone makes me a nazi? Do you have any real arguments besides calling someone a nazi?

 

[Num Lock]

Being a great player doesn't make you pure class!

then what does?

in my eyes Maradona, Platini, Cruyff, Valderrama, Gascoine (sp?) Zidane are good examples of pure class.

 

[Silencer]

Zidane has no regrets about the headbutt, even if that was the last thing he did in his career and that he missed out on a 2nd Worldcup.
Materazzi kept repeating his insults and he tried not to listen to it but something 'snapped'. I was saying it all along Materazzi is a c*nt!