What Materazzi really said to Zidane
- 12 July 2006
Unless you’ve been on another planet since Sunday night, you’ll have seen the various images of ‘the greatest player of his generation’™/’best player in Europe since Cruff’™ [delete hyperbole as applicable]¹ headbutting former Blueshite defender Materazzi.
Because the media had hyped up Zidane before the game, they now have to spend an equal amount of copy justifying Zidane’s bizarre reaction. These have ranged from the usual “I’ve shagged your mam” type jibes to the borderline racist.
As Football 365’s Mediawatch quite correctly points out though:
Given that Zinedine Zidane has been sent off more times than Roy Keane, Vinnie Jones and Patrick Vieira – fourteen, by our count, with more than one for similar headbutts – Mediawatch feels that the effort to create something horrific that Materazzi must have said and remove blame from the France captain is quite possibly needless.
And this of course is what the media ‘wankfest’ is forgetting. Zidane has history here, even getting sent off in the 1998 World Cup for stamping on someone. It’s not like he hasn’t done it before. Oohh, tortured genius etc.
But anyway, what did he really say to make Zidane do his best Ram-man impression? Well, as exclusively revealed by Trigger1978 on the RAOTL Liverpool forum (without the aid of ‘deaf lip readers’), this is what Materazzi actually said:
You can’t win Zinedine. If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine
¹ I’ve been bemused by the flattery Zidane has received this time round. The Observer described him as the best European player since Cruyff, which to my mind is disgraceful. Zidane isn’t even fit to lace Platini’s boots, and to be honest, I wouldn’t even put him in that midfield of 82-86.
Mindst, it would have been good to see who would win in a straight fight between Zidane’s headbutt and Harold Schumachers big fat German arse.
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