Well clearly Zidane took it as an insult, and right he should. How can you be so sure Materazzi wouldn't have said that? I, for one, would never put something like that past him. He said that knowing good and well that Zidane is the son of Algerian family. There's absolutely no class on the Italian side, and there's nothing anyone can say to prove otherwise.

On an ESPN radio show this afternoon, they also talked about how earlier on in the game, Materazzi supposedly gave Zidane a "purple nurple". It sounds funny, but fuck those can hurt sometimes. I'm sure Zidane wasn't exactly innocent, but at the same time, a racist remark like that should not be tolerated.