Do any of you realize that it is part of the game to get under the opponents skin so as to neutralize their ability to concentrate and score? Do you realize that had Zidane stayed in the game, his teammate still missed on his PK? Do you realize that his teammate would still have been chosen to take the PK?
If I were playing against someone who had a history of getting back at players, believe me, I would use every insult I could to get him mad at me. It's part of the game. Materazzi isn't the first, nor the last player to do it.
To focus on Materazzi as a cheater doesn't do Zidane any justice. Remember Zizou for his heroics, to say that he was taken down by a "cheater" is to say that anything can take him down.
If I were in Zidane's place, I wouldn't want to be remembered that way.
2006-08-21
06:38:09
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Awesome Bill
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