absinthe Told :
An expierienced decent player like zidane is would never do something like this unless he has reasons! and the latest rumours say that matarazzi really insulted him with racist stuff and all! Who wouldn't react the same as Zidane?
Srry andi but that one is not the zidane we all know: zidane is used to do such types of things, he often gets mad and he payed a lot for his bad behaviour. He usually loses control, and thats not the behaviour of a pro player. I agree, i probably would do the same if provoked...but im not a professional player...thats the difference. I dunno, it seems u dont know how football is: i dont say its ok, but every player knows that what the ref doesnt see cannot be punished. Divers r punished if caught diving, bad words are punished as well if heard by the ref... but unless u put a microphone on every player bad words aren't so easy to spot. Thats not new, every player knows it, even zidane. A match fo football is also played with nerves, soem teams are pros in making the other team lose control. We all know about italy but look at portugal, its the same: some lil fauls, the exasperated ball possession, some lil words during the play... make the other team nervous and drive it to makes errors (play mistakes or even reaction fauls for ex.). Usually when a player loses control, pressed by opponents, and gets a red card HE is blamed and not forgiven, cos he, losing control, put in danger his whole team forced to play in 10. I'm srry if u dont like it but THATS FOOTBALL, and its played also with brain and nerves, not only with feet. If u dont like it, well go play pacman or chess
And zidane completed the shit on his recent interview: he even said he has no regrets, and that he would do the same cos otherwise that could mean he approve what materazzi said!!! thats unbelivable!! this is real mafia thoughts!! they seems thought of an animal not of a man. Anyway if u interested, as they spoke italian, its rpetty easy to udnerstand what they said, at least the first part. It seems as the fact materazzi grabbed zidan's shirt during the last action, zidane hironically said: "if u like it so much u can come after the match, i will give it to u" and matrazzi replied "u can give your shirt to your sister whore", materazzi sweared he didnt used racist words nor insulted zidane's mom but of course we dont know what was said after that.
About the fifa golden ball, well all fifa managers were ashamed by the result, cos no one could think to give this prize to someone who headbutted an opponent: infact they suddenly justified it telling that the votes were collected b4 the final and pointed out thats not a good way to vote. Of course zidane deserved that prize b4 the final, not after.
Im ok in trying to investigate on what materazzi said, but i only guess why that happened only with zidane-materazzi while they should have done it at least 30 times in this wc: just another example i want to mention, but i could mention so many; frings was forced not to play the semifinal cos he punched cruz... was anybody interested in what cruz said to provoke frings punh? none. And even more: if materazzi headbutted zidane instead the opposite, do u think would anybody be interested in why he did that? materazzi is usually the killer, zidane the genius... try to think at it.
Anyway, we won again the wc, thats the only important thing: if they will punish materazzi with 100 days and will forgive zidane cos, poooooor him, his sister was called "biatch", well the cup would be still in italy and , believe me, materazzi would be as well the happiest man of the planet 
PS: if i headbutted every of u that during quake matches call me or my parents noob, slut, sucker or whatever, well my head would be already broken 
PPS: nice tags andi and shiva but pls, would u reduce them in size? they ruin all site layout 
go ita gooo
ciao, stema