MEH!

Zidane's explanation has just been released, and damn its pretty compelling. In the last few days, his mother was diagnosed with a serious terminal illness (something along the lines of cancer possibly) An Italian lip reader read what the Materazzi, and it was along the lines of "i hope your mother and family die a systematic painful death". So perhaps the headbutt was pretty justified... looks like zidane took it to heart.

Well, he's offical player of the tournament anyway, so thats really cool i think.
 
kev said:
Zidane's explanation has just been released, and damn its pretty compelling. In the last few days, his mother was diagnosed with a serious terminal illness (something along the lines of cancer possibly) An Italian lip reader read what the Materazzi, and it was along the lines of "i hope your mother and family die a systematic painful death". So perhaps the headbutt was pretty justified... looks like zidane took it to heart.

Well, he's offical player of the tournament anyway, so thats really cool i think.

If that's true, then i wanted to see that headbutt in his face instead of his chest.. nobody could just stand there and tolerate that, nobody can just stand there and let that go, right?

IF that's true.. then im well dissapointed in that materazzi guy... what a dick!
 
Actually here apparently (from what I gathered) Zidane turned out as a hero (which he already was anyway), someone fighting for his honor and his family's no matter the price... Plus he scored... :)
As for Materazzi, he's famous for his verbal AND physical provocations.