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Pooka...

If you headbutted someone like that, your hair would have their eyes out along with giving them deep lacerations to the face!!

(Note to self not to piss pooka off anymore)

Zinedine Zidane has elaborated on the chain of events which led to his attack on Marco Materazzi during the World Cup final.

The midfield genius brought the curtain down on one of the world's great careers when seeing red for a headbutt on Materazzi.

Numerous reports have commented on what led Zidane to launch his attack on the Italian defender and the France star has claimed Materazzi insulted both his mother and his sister.

"He (Materazzi) pronounced very tough words about my mother and my sister. I tried not to listen to him but he kept repeating them," Zidane said in a live interview on French television channel Canal Plus.

"I would rather have taken a punch in the jaw than have heard that."

Zidane had kept his own counsel on Sunday's events prior to his interview on French television and he has apologised for his actions - but still feels Materazzi was the guilty party.

"I apologise to all the children who watched the match on Sunday. This was not something to do. I want to make it clear because it was watched by two billion people and by millions of kids," Zidane said.

"I want to apologise to them but I can't regret what I did because it would mean that he (Materazzi) was right to say what he said."

Zidane felt referee Horacio Elizondo was correct to send him off.

"Afterwards I explained to the referee that I had been provoked, but my behaviour is not forgivable," Zidane said.

Zidane said that he would seek to defend himself at an upcoming Fifa hearing.

"I will go and I will tell everything I have just said," he added.

"The reaction is always punished but if there is no provocation there is no reaction. The guilty person is the one who provokes.

"If I reacted that way, it is because something bad happened. Do you really believe that 10 minutes before the end of my career I would be able to make such a bad gesture? The provocation was very serious."

Some had suggested Zidane may reconsider his decision to retire so as not to end his career on such a low note, but the midfield superstar says there will no comeback.

"This is a decision I have made and I will not go back on it," he said. "This is definite. I will not play again."

I do feel sorry for him, even though I don't condone his actions. My mate's sister is a French algerian journalist and wrote this article for the Guardian:

http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup ... 90,00.html

Dollydagger wrote:I do feel sorry for him, even though I don't condone his actions. My mate's sister is a French algerian journalist and wrote this article for the Guardian:

http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup ... 90,00.html

Good article that.

Dirty fu**ers - been rumbled!

You'll need to see the animations from the link a couple of posts down!

Brilliant.

Thats hilarious!

Where did you get that from Shadyboy...i want to mail this to a few of my mates!!

http://gifdump.com/search/Zidane/

there are 27 variations on the gif here
but the site is down for maintenance right now, so it seems.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/13 ... t_outrage/

Also appears that Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips has taken over as the Italy manager:-

shadyboy wrote:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/13 ... t_outrage/

Also appears that Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips has taken over as the Italy manager:-

Quality!

Thought Lippi turned into Paul O'Grady during the World Cup,too

This gif email made national news last night!!!

Sophie Ellis Bextor has been found headbutted to death at a French footballers house.




Apparently it was murder on Zidane's floor.

*groans*

The italians played dirty all night alright... (including the portugals thru out the WC 06). What's with these tanned curly haired men!!

France would have won if not for Materazzi's provocation. Zidane could have reacted with words instead of action, what they can't hear would still keep him going on the field. Maybe say sumthing like oh u look so GAY! But it's easier said than done.

I'm sure you have been there and done that (tho not on a football field with the whole world watching). I tried walking away ...

The entire week ... i've been reminscing how lovely zizzou worked on the field with that arty ball kick every time my new boss (was) got into his melodrama tantrums at me, shooting abuse with his fat motor mouth! And i'd only been in the company for 2 weeks but the man was proposterous, arrogant and insisted i kowtowed to his lack of professionalism (like all typical male chinese fat arse bosses here). Hahahahaa.. sorry wrong lass to ask to prescribe to this non productive chinese employer-employee convention.

The final straw came last evening when i couldn't take it anymore! i couldn't even picture zizzou or other happy thoughts to distract me from my boss' verbal abuse. I argued back and threw the pen across the room in defiance and it shocked him! Before he could sack me ( it was written on his face), i quickly told him i quit!

In hindsight, i could have saved my job but i didnt regret doing what i did. Apparently many before me resigned after a month or less. I did plan to quit except it would have been with a bit more grace. Us who lacked that grace, probaly aren't as cunning and scheming as the ones who provoked us.

i sympanthise with Zidane and i hope he gets to keep the award. He deserves it and no, Kagey, it's not because i love his shaved head i love his shaved head VERY VERY much and he can butthead me anytime... (in the belly off course, don't get ideas y'all!).