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2006-07-11 Europe

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Posted by tipper 2006-07-11 10:08|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "You can take the man out of the rough neighborhood, but you can't take the rough neighborhood out of the man,"

Utter nonsense. Some people are natural gentlemen, some are low-class trash... and neither condition is dependent on the situation one was born into.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-11 10:42|| 2006-07-11 10:42|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought he told him "your sister is a prostitute". Though I'm not a lip reader.

They should get over it. It's done all the time. Italian soccer is especially brutal though :-) Zidane should've known that.

Btw, Zidane has a Berber background. Interestingly, in his book which he published along with Christophe Dugarry, he dedicated his 1998 world cup win to all Algerians, and those families in France who have not forgtotten their roots. This dedication went missing in the second printing of the book. Wonder why.

Posted by Crouching Tiger Hidden Talent 2006-07-11 11:12|| 2006-07-11 11:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Who know, perhaps he called him "Arab".

A few weeks ago I was present when two Algerian women had a row a supermarket. Both were in their sixties. One had her hair covered, not the Iranin-like tchador who smells "terrorist sympathiser or wife of terrorist symptahiser" at ten yards, it was less strict and militantic, more like traditional algerian cloth . The other one was clad occidental-style. The "occidental" was screaming "Apologize!", the other told something in Arabic and then the "occidental" screamed even stronger "SPEAK FRENCH". I think she was a Berber.

As an aside for many years Berbers have feigned to not understand Arabic and forced Arabic-speakers to speak French to them.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-07-11 11:35|| 2006-07-11 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Let's see...World Cup, the French and possible media misquotes.

Nope! Don't care at all.

Posted by Creling Glaving6065 2006-07-11 11:50|| 2006-07-11 11:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like pretty standard trash talk to me - happens in all sports. How could Zidane be so dumb as to react to it? On another note, why is this pinhead SOS group involved? I noticed that most of France's team was black.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-07-11 13:21|| 2006-07-11 13:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Video of the headbutt :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/348829
Great headbutting, by the way, footballers/soccer players use their head a lot (to bounce balls...), and growing up in a sleazy project of Marseille, I'm sure he had used it before.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-11 13:55|| 2006-07-11 13:55|| Front Page Top

#7 How is "terrorist" a racist term again?

Posted by JSU 2006-07-11 13:59|| 2006-07-11 13:59|| Front Page Top

#8 "At the 1998 World Cup, he stomped on a Saudi Arabian opponent."

Cut him some slack

Posted by Groluque Whanter6375 2006-07-11 14:08|| 2006-07-11 14:08|| Front Page Top

#9 'Son of terrorist whore'

Italy's Marco Materazzi called Zinedine Zidane a "son of a terrorist whore" just before the France captain gave him a brutal head-butt in the World Cup final, Britain's top forensic lip reader says.

The Times newspaper hired Jessica Rees, whose skill has seen her summoned as an expert witness at criminal trials, to study a tape of Sunday's match that saw Zidane get a red card for his seemingly spontaneous assault.

"After an exhaustive study of the match video, and with the help of an Italian translator, Rees claimed that Materazzi called Zidane 'the son of a terrorist whore' before adding 'so just f*** off' for good measure," it said.

Posted by john 2006-07-11 17:55|| 2006-07-11 17:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, that's a tough one. It's a matter of honour I guess. But it's the World Cup, end of a career, going down in history as the best player since Platini, so....I would have simply responded with "How's your wife and my kids?".

Posted by Wohoo 2006-07-11 18:15|| 2006-07-11 18:15|| Front Page Top

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