What was said to Zidane

Originally posted by Rabisu
"you are only good enough for Man City now"

No professional should ever say that to another player, it is taking banter too far. I agree with those that say Matta should have the book thrown at him for that.

I heard it was Spurs which would have been even worse of course.

Originally posted by jgvaccaro
Where did you find these quotes? What's the evidence that Materazzi these racist things? Materazzi admits insulting Zidane-- but he denies saying anything about Muslim or terrorism. Zidane (as far as I know) has not said that Materazzi made racist remarks. Various lipreaders have interpreted the comments various ways, but I have yet to see this exact ve ...[text shortened]... g accusations of racism and treating them as matters of fact.

Let's see the source, now.

We where not there at the moment prior to the head butting therefore we will never know the true reason behind this occurrence. I know should someone speak to me in such away at just the right time and place in such away I might very well loose my temper and start whooping on them. I dare those who say they would never to ask themselves to think and I am absolutely sure they will be able to remember at last once already in there own life a time similar to this instance.

Originally posted by orfeo
Zidane has now been interviewed.

You could argue it's one players word against another's, but consider the context - billions of people saw Zidane very suddenly turn in reaction to something that was said and perform the now infamous headbutt.

So given what we all observed, who are you going to believe - the person that says the comment was mild but won't say what it was, or the one that says it was disgusting and unrepeatable?

Originally posted by jgvaccaro
Materazzi

Originally posted by aspviper666
What do Italian sports cars have to do with this???

Originally posted by jgvaccaro
Actually one of the American commentators actually referred to Materazzi as "Maserati" at one point during the final game (right after Italy's goal, I think).

Originally posted by ElleEffSeee
Wrong - if it's racist it should be highlighted and Matty be made an example of.

Originally posted by Wheely
Yeah, I like this idea. Let's blame Materazzi for getting head butted in the chest.

It is not in the slightest bit relevant what was said between the two of them. It was not out in the street, it was not in the privacy of their own homes it was on the world stage with two billion people watching. Professionals behave as such, not like brawling children.

There was a newspaper article asking how much lower could Zidane sink; I thought he did bloody well to get that low on the chest, but a diving header to the groin would have been classic.

Three cheers for Zidane.If someone said something about my mother i would have reacted in the same way.

Originally posted by dottewell
Italian. Zidane speak the language as he played for Juve for some years.

All I'd say is that Zidane grew up in Marseilles and must have heard much worse. There may be no excuse for what Materazzi said, but there is no excuse for Zidane's behaviour either.

Originally posted by FrenchQueen
Agreed. This is now in the open, it's important that people should know about this, if it was a racist comment, when FIFA is trying to eradicate racism among football fans; this reflects very badly on the Italian player.
Some say that Zidane should have kept cool and not reacted the way he did, as a professional football player whom many young people look up to etc . . . but he's only human.

Originally posted by uzless
He's only human? So it's okay to act like retards because "we're only human"??? You seem to be justifying dumb stupid retarded behaviour when someone says a few words to you. Why can't you just let it go? Why does every injustice require some kind of response?? Some kind of, "I'll show you how wrong you are!" response. Why can't people just be secure i ted using our brains for something other than to fill the space behind our eyeballs.