Materazzi Speaks About Zidane Incident

Nothing negative about Zidane here, just a little more on the whole incident and what Materazzi had to say. I think Materazzi is still a little prick. He is suspended for todays big France v Italy match.

"I was tugging his shirt," he told Gazzetta dello Sport. "He said to me, 'If you want my shirt so much I'll give it to you afterwards.' I answered that I'd prefer his sister. It's not a particularly nice thing to say, I recognise that. But loads of players say worse things. I didn't even know he had a sister before all this happened."

Pile of crap if you ask me. I think there was a lot more said than that. I don't think that Zidane would have done what he did over a little comment like that. We may never really know the truth or at least not until Zidane comes out with an autobiography. Just to throw it out there as he has gone public probably just to get the fans going for the big match today.

On the match itself, here's a quote about the match from the French. "It might be revenge for the fans but not for us," conceded Lilian Thuram. "If we beat them that doesn't really prove anything. The final is long behind us now."

I completely agree with this, as the match is just a Euro 2008 qualifier and doesn't have anywhere near the impact as the actual final did. Now if France play Italy in the final then it really will mean something.