terry_rory Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Materazzi's own mother did comment to reporters that her son was a very good boy so obviously he is incapable of such behaviour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof-K Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Ugh...nasty...hope FIFA find out the truth and do something about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_s8 Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 what racist game, Trevor? are you smokin'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summitar Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Did Zidane use a head butt because the use of hands or fists is illegal in soccer? Watching soccer on TB is like watching paint dry. At the one and only professional game I attended, seated in the second deck, one could visualize plays forming. Since TV concentrates on a small regiona around the ball, the action appears to be purely random. Of course, the US is a hand-eye coordination country, with an attention span considerably shorter than the length of a soccer game. Except for our medieval inbred cousins from the deep south who get their jollies at NASCAR events, i.e., wtching traffic for 3 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincenzo_maielli Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Hi, Trevor. Materazzi's mother was dead many years ago, when Marco was child. The fingers up, after the goal, indicate the mother in the heaven. Ciao Vincenzo Maielli Italy Sorry for my bad english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Yes indeed you are right. This is the danger of reading the news media to soon after the event. Seems it was Materazzi's agent who said he was a 'good boy'. Probably best to wait until the dust has settled and some hard facts have emerged after a properly conducted inquiry. Football deserves them both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 At least the tournament now has something to remember it by :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 "At least the tournament now has something to remember it by." I'm not sure the head butt will replace the memory of the insanely bad officiating in my memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trex1 Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Uggh! I feel rotten for Zidane. I think if the reports are true about Maserati, and what he said, how can you really criticize Zisou for being a hothead? Under the circumstances his response was pretty restrained. Oh, and by the way, pardon my ignorance, but is there some reason why Zidane has to retire. Is he too old to go on playing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_spiers Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 He's retiring because (despite a couple of good performances in the World Cup) he's a shadow of the player he was 5 years ago. Anyone who has watched Real Madrid in the last couple of seasons would agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trex1 Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Maybe all that racism is wearing him down. I haven't lived in Europe for almost 20 years, and I had no idea it was so bad. I thought all those things, like getting the teams to read affirmations against racism was going overboard, but now it seems like a drop in the bucket. Having said that, I have no idea if Materazzi is a real racist, or just a genius at playing dirty. They should call him the Machiavelli of the pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trex1 Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 <a href="http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=16068">Two different lip readers draw same conclusion on what he actually said.</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/5169342.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summitar Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 Thank the Lord we had a real sporting event tonight, the baseball all star game, to hopefully put an end to silly men running around in short pants and big heads (but no arms). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trex1 Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 Yeah Kerry? You are trying to wind us up here, aren't you? American sports are a big joke compared to soccer. American football is built around tv ads, just like baseball, and basketball. The reason soccer is not big in America is because it does not conveniently break for a message from "our sponsor." I mean, how many people actually play any of those sports? And why are none of them as popular as socccer, they don't have that magic. American football is for pansies who need to pad themselves in armor, not a real game for men like rugby. Basketball has a height restriction, which restricts it to freaks of nature over 6' 7", baseball is ok, but it's hardly a strenuous sport, ice hockey is for anti s0cial psycopaths, golf is for rich white folk. Nah, leave it out mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tito sobrinho Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 "Thank the Lord we had a real sporting event tonight, the baseball all star game, to hopefully put an end to silly men running around in short pants and big heads (but no arms)" K. Kennedy. Hmmm! What do you think of men dressed in pijamas, chewing and spitting incessantly, using sign language that resembles obscene remarks, and throwing balls at each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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