What Materazzi really said.

[Nem]

After yesterdays incident, a couple of comments have really got me annoyed - Zidane's a mug, Zidane is a thug etc...

This is what really happened:

Zidane's Mother is seriously ill and was taken to hospital last week. Materazzi said to Zidane "I hope your mother dies of a painful death". This was 20 seconds after he grabbed Zidanes nipple and twisted it.

I feel Zidane's actions were justified, and I, like most people, would have done exactly the same as Zidane did to Materazzi.

edit: I'm quoting a BBC lip reader.

[mikee_j]

I would have done the same, but you can never justify it! especially as its the world cup final with millions watching, he's mean't to be a pro footballer, you got to deal with things like that!

[Jim-D]

Appauling by materazzi,  I would of knocked the bastards head off!!


But to defend my comment "Zidane..what a mug"  there was no way I thought someone would say something so spitefull as this,  new he had said something but At the time never had that info so I retract and change to "Zidane..why didnt he break his neck!!!!"

[ifm]

How do you know this?
What did the saudi arabian chap say to him during the 1998 world cup?
Or the guy from Hamburg he nutted during the champions league in 2001?

[Jim-D]

I would have done the same, but you can never justify it! especially as its the world cup final with millions watching, he's mean't to be a pro footballer, you got to deal with things like that!

Bollocks!!  The guy is HUMAN, any fella speaks that way of my family to me at ANY stage in ANY place no matter where hes gonna get battered

[mikee_j]

I would have done the same, but you can never justify it! especially as its the world cup final with millions watching, he's mean't to be a pro footballer, you got to deal with things like that!

Bollocks!!  The guy is HUMAN, any fella speaks that way of my family to me at ANY stage in ANY place no matter where hes gonna get battered

footballers get abuse like that all the time on the pitch, you got to be professional about it...... as difficult as it may be.

[Royal Flush]

I would have done the same, but you can never justify it! especially as its the world cup final with millions watching, he's mean't to be a pro footballer, you got to deal with things like that!

Bollocks!!  The guy is HUMAN, any fella speaks that way of my family to me at ANY stage in ANY place no matter where hes gonna get battered

Why you would never be a proffesional footballer!

Its disgracefull if true, i cant see it as true given the Italian team was isolated from evreyon outside due to the scandal so they would have had no knowledge about Zidane's mother.

Even so, he is a pro, and supposed to be a grownup. Hitting someone is just plain wrong.

[leighton_87]

After yesterdays incident, a couple of comments have really got me annoyed - Zidane's a mug, Zidane is a thug etc...

This is what really happened:

Zidane's Mother is seriously ill and was taken to hospital last week. Materazzi said to Zidane "I hope your mother dies of a painful death". This was 20 seconds after he grabbed Zidanes nipple and twisted it.

I feel Zidane's actions were justified, and I, like most people, would have done exactly the same as Zidane did to Materazzi.

Just wondering where you heard this?  From all reports I've heard it was definitely a comment about his mum but rather along the lines of shes a whore or something racial and that the Italians did not know she was ill.  Therefore the reaction was understandable to us now but not to him at the time.

Although I'm not condoning any abuse there's a big difference between shouting "I had your mum last night" like a teenage school boy would and "I hope your mother dies of a painful death" when he knows shes in hospital.

I really hope that isn't true, if it is it is one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard.

[byronkincaid]

There seem to be conflicting reports

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=2006-07-10T163843Z_01_L10406204_RTRIDST_0_SPORT-SOCCER-WORLD-FRANCE-ZIDANE.XML

[Nem]

There seem to be conflicting reports

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=2006-07-10T163843Z_01_L10406204_RTRIDST_0_SPORT-SOCCER-WORLD-FRANCE-ZIDANE.XML

I'm quoting an Italian lip reader who lip read the incident.

[lazaroonie]

this does seem like an element of "bandwagon jumping" by this anti-racist group.

the truth willl out eventually

[Royal Flush]

I have read that he called him a terrorist, said his sister was a prostitue, called him a sand nigger and in what you said about his mother.

[Royal Flush]

This is the version i believe.....

Zidane: Oi, pack it in!
Materazzi: Shut it you bald twat.
Zidane: Please be quiet.
Materazzi: Grow some hair you frog.
[Zidane turns around and headbutts Materazzi in the chest]

[leighton_87]

This is the version i believe.....

Zidane: Oi, pack it in!
Materazzi: Shut it you bald twat.
Zidane: Please be quiet.
Materazzi: Grow some hair you frog.
[Zidane turns around and headbutts Materazzi in the chest]

 

[Rupert]

What a great role model, resolving situations with violence.