Italy-France 6-4!!!!!

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: pauk
Didn't mean exactly on WC and Italians. After all they deserved victory. Did you notice that French were attacking only with 3-4 men in last 20 minutes....

Matzerazzi is well known as a "butcher" - i have witnessed in many games he played in Italian league. He didn't played dirtier than other players in the WC - i guess that Lippi done a good job with him - but in Italian league he is something different - butcher!

Lots of people here are angry about diving but i'm more benevolent to diving than butchering and injuring the player (after all, now all hates C. Ronaldo because of that but they forgot how many times defenders commits a nasty fouls on him)..

I guess i hate "butchers" because i'm playing soccer and was more than once brutally stopped...

Ah....we don't get to see much league ball here in the States. I hate diving and the brutal slide tackling equally. Both take away from the beauty and skill of the game. If I want to watch rugby, I'll watch rugby, thanks.

[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: captskillet

thank god real football starts in about 2 1/2 weeks [;)] [:D] !

Amen brother. [&o]

Now that World Cup and Wimbilton are over ESPN's Sport Center won't be cluttered with these unimportant sports. [;)] Now if golf would just end.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: captskillet

thank god real football starts in about 2 1/2 weeks [;)] [:D] !

Really? [8D]

And how many times during your "football" match players actually play with foot? [:D]


Leo "Apollo11"

[Arstavidios]

ORIGINAL: mc3744

I know it's OT ... I just couldn't resist!!

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Now stop talking about football and send me my next turn

[Ursa MAior]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

ORIGINAL: captskillet

thank god real football starts in about 2 1/2 weeks [;)] [:D] !

Amen brother. [&o]

Now that World Cup and Wimbilton are over ESPN's Sport Center won't be cluttered with these unimportant sports. [;)] Now if golf would just end.

If it a serious sport event I dont know of then I am terribly sorry, if you meant Wimbledon, Then run RUPD, before the spelchecking police or the "midjet piolets" are on you.

[Sardaukar]

Zinedine Zidane....excellent headbutt. Great speed combined with a good downward angle, left the Italian no chance.

[:D][:D][:'(]

[Speedysteve]

[:D] 
http://tonaz.altervista.org/zidane.html

[pauk]

not working[:(]

[Speedysteve]

Damn. That got rid of that one quick.
 
A shame. Basically it allowed you to move Zidane around a pitch had butting Materazzi's. After a while the ref came up and sent you off. Amusing to see[:D]

[veji1]

congrats to the italians, it was 50/50 and they won it in the end... I am sad for Zidane, what he did on the world's biggest stage is a shame... I don't want to speculate on what Materazzi said so I'll just leave it there at this point...

Congrats to Italy, they make a very good world champion for what was a real tournament albeit a divy and a bit boring one... At least this fourth star on their jersey is a real one, unlike Brazil's fifth...

[invernomuto]

ORIGINAL: Gen.Hoepner

However, Materazzi is the butcher or the killer, but with Zidane yesterday he did not do anything terrible.

Are you sure general? Seems that Materazzi asked Zizou to play with Inter next season. I fully understand Zidane reaction...

Bye

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

Zinedine Zidane....excellent headbutt. Great speed combined with a good downward angle, left the Italian no chance.

[:D][:D][:'(]

One does have to admire the efficacy of the blow itself, but a completely unprepared victim..with Zidane's forehead halfway to whats his name's spine..there is the small matter of the organ that pumps blood right behind the sternum..its pretty important and is susceptible to myocardial contusion..which can lead to arrhythmias..which is a bad thing.

Perhaps Zidane was confused and thought he was in Pamplona.

A hockey or baseball player would have used his fist [:)]

[Gen.Hoepner]

seems that Materazzi said to Zidane something like "You, Islamic Terrorist"....that's what rumors say.
 
 

[veji1]

Well to be honest, I think some good can come out of it all. I know some intimidation is part of sports, but we know as well that trash talking when it becomes racism is not sports anymore... What Zidane did is unexcusable, yet If Materazzi really said what he is supposed to have said ( along the lines of "****ing muslim terrorist" ), I think he should be suspended. Add this to the monkey shouts in the stadium and I think it is time to crackdown on it.

That said, it does not take anything away from Italy's victory that was won on the pitch.

[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: Grotius

Exciting game, stunning end for Zidane. Dives and all, this World Cup was thrilling.

I guess it's exciting for a lot of you guys, but looking at it from my perspective, from what little I know, given I didn't see it, you guys must be getting excited about something else. 1-1 tie is exciting? And then the game is won be what passes for a free-throw shooting competition in basketball? To think an entire championship was decided by that!

Perhaps all the fake injuries are what make the game exciting? How many legitimate attempts on goal were there? If that made for an exciting game I would venture to guess that the other Cups must had been so exciting that people couldn't sleep for a month.

[captskillet]

A hockey or baseball player would have used his fist

Or a 250 lb linebacker would have just run over him and left a bloody spot on the turf !!![;)]

[Marten]

http://widelec.org/zidane.html
[:D][:D][:D]




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wth?
sorry link seems to be gone.

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