Small Zidane Wank
So usually, when you think of wank coming up after a major sporting event like the World Cup, you think it'll be people complaining about how their team was robbed. Thankfully for us, the final of the 2006 World Cup promises nothing that boring.

The trouble started when Marco Materazzi of Italy said or did something - as yet undetermined - to Zinedine Zidane, a top player in football for whom today's game was to be the end, and perhaps the crown of his career. That is, until he headbutted Materazzi in the chest and was thrown out of the game.



eclipticxchic starts it off with:

that was crap and you all know it.
im sorry but italy did not deserve to win, maybe in order to win, ill take out the other teams best player, sounds right huh italy?
this entire world cup was upsetting.


Most people reasonably tell her that Zidane, you know, sort of headbutted someone in the chest. So possibly, possibly, as a veteran player, he should have held his temper. Most of the subsequent posts on the comm are about how people are disappointed that Zidane acted immaturely, regardless of the provocation. The comments are only little wanky, but then the rumors start flying that Materazzi made a racist comment. (Zidane is apparently a French-Algerian Muslim.)

lebrija_shores then posts her two cents.

Zidane should speak up against racists and racist comments.

I'm sorry but Materazzi deserves a red card too.

Edit: Calm down people, I meant that the man has encountered much racism in his career. And Materazzi obviously was provoking something that encouraged his head butt. Verbal is as much damaging as physical. Stop assuming things ;-)

And for the record I was an Italy fan until that incident.


People protest.

Surprisingly, a post that posits violence is worse than racism only gets a mild protest.