Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on July 10th, 2006 in Rants

I know I’m just one among the millions and millions of fans around the world that watched the 2006 World Cup final on Sunday and watched in shock as the replays showed Zidane head butting an Italian player.

I spent a fair amount of time searching the various news outlets and Google to see if Zidane gave any kind of explanation, but none was to be found.

I found various blogs and comments where people are actually excusing Zidane’s behaviour, speculating that the Italian must have used a racial slur.  Give me a break!!!  Is Zidane such a baby that he can’t handle a racial slur or any kind of taunting.  Whether we like it ot not, verbal assaults go on all the time.  I can’t believe any footballer out there hasn’t been exposed to the worst of the worst in terms of verbal assaults.

It truly is a shamefull end to a spectacular career.  I hope Zidane comes out and apologizes for his behaviour.  Untill then, we can only speculate as to what was going though his head at the time that it made contact with the Italian players chest.