ze devil zidane

... or so zinedine being portrayed. okay, he was a punk to headbutt marco materazzi
but it seems like everyone's making such a big deal about it. granted, it did
propel the guy on the ground (which made my eyes open wide), but it's a damn head-butt. people get head-butted all the time; soccer players sure as hell get head-butted all the time. it was actually kind of funny.

first of all, i think the craziest thing about it was that zidane was so obvious about it. i mean, if he was that peeved with materazzi, couldn't he have used his infinite soccer skills to hurt the guy in a more discreet way? say, toss the ball up with his feet and "accidentally" knee the guy in the groin. hmm, scratch that - materazzi was probably wearing a cup.

secondly, i have no clue what their disagreement was about. perhaps materazzi said something waaay out of line. possibly he talked about one of zidane's dead relatives or something.

i guess that was the nice thing about playing water polo - since half of our bodies were under water, we could do whatever we wanted underneath because the refs couldn't see it.
but then again, that's coming from someone who's obvious herself. i used to always get penalties for being too rough (or at least, being too obvious about it). but on another h2o polo point, it's rumoured that we chicks are more brutal than the guys. ahh, what fun times...

anyway, there's the whole world cup nostalgia still in the air; i don't think the zidane incident should be made such a big deal; why focus on the controversy when the victory's what it's about?

and why the hell did someone name him zidane if his last name is zinedine? let's go for some variety.