Quote Originally Posted by tokinggreg
Dude, don't take such a strong point of view based on "what experts believe" was said. They can speculate on their own, but the bottom line is the that the two of them were going at it, not just Materazzi yelling insults at Zidane. No matter what Materazzi said, you can't deny that Zidane reacted childlishly by retaliating with violence. He made an ASS of himself, and he deserves the bad reputation for his actions.

And to say there's no class on the Italian side?!? Are you kidding dude? The players on both teams were tight for the most part. The only two on the field that had any problem were Zidane and Materazzi. And again with the conjecture about the "purple nurple".. do you seriously believe an adult would do that? Come on, grow up and don't insult Italians.
I admit I might have come off a little heated there, but things were intense. I'm cool now though, I promise.

But why wouldn't you want me to believe what I heard on a reliable sports news channel. There's no way they wouldn't say something like that unless they had reliable sources and it was the truth.

And you know what, I actually do believe that a footballer, and not just an Italian one, would stoop as low to give an opponent a "purple nurple". I know this because shit like that goes on in football all the time. I played my first year of college soccer last year, and even at some NAIA league, things I experienced were much worse. My first game, the guy I was guarding stuck his fucking thumb up my ass. Swear to it. He just stuck it right in there when the ref wasn't looking and I was trying to fight for position. Needless to say, I gave up my position momentariy so I could go check for blood somewhere...

But the point is, he won the position by doing that to me. Anything to get that extra step, that extra inch. If you haven't played at a semi-competitive level, then you really can't know only a fraction of the actual shit going on out there. A lot of players get by doing that, it's just part of the game.