One benefit of not having a sister
6 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Tuesday, September 5 at Tuesday, September 05, 2006.
So sometimes, it rocks to be an only child. It also rocks to be sane.
Remember the craziness from Zidane in the final minutes of the World Cup final, headbutting the Italian player? There was a lot of speculation that the player must have said something very provocative, and possibly racist, to provoke such a crazy reaction from such an experienced player.
Well, it turns out that he didnt say much at all:
That comment wouldn't even make a cricket player blink twice, let alone start throwing headbutts....Check this out to see the standard of trash talk that we enjoy in the gentlemans game....
Remember the craziness from Zidane in the final minutes of the World Cup final, headbutting the Italian player? There was a lot of speculation that the player must have said something very provocative, and possibly racist, to provoke such a crazy reaction from such an experienced player.
Well, it turns out that he didnt say much at all:
"Zidane was sent off for the attack and later claimed he was provoked after Materazzi had insulted his mother.Lame. I would hate to see what would happen if Zidane got a job in the AI office.....Either there's more to this story (previous/ongoing provocation), or Zidane just couldnt handle all the stress and lost his cool at the first opportunity.
But Materazzi told Gazzetta dello Sport that Zidane's sister was the subject.
He said: "I was tugging his shirt, 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."
Materazzi added: "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."
That comment wouldn't even make a cricket player blink twice, let alone start throwing headbutts....Check this out to see the standard of trash talk that we enjoy in the gentlemans game....
"Glenn McGrath (bowling to portly Zimbabwean chicken farmer EddoZidane wouldn't last 5 minutes on a cricket field.....
Brandes): “Hey Eddo, why are you so fuckng fat?”
Eddo Brandes replies: “Because everytime I fuck your mother, she throws me a biscuit”
lol amen!....
and it continues on, the australian-english sledging is phenomenal.
i miss steve waugh, i heard he was a master at such stuff , especially when he was on the receiving end and he would go into 'iceman' mode, reducing opposing teams with invincible centuries stretching on for sessions at end...
ahhhh what a game:)
Tom, I love to read your stories! What happend to our genious idea of establishing a whole industry around sabbaticals? And by the way: Please get back to me about our lovely SAM conference at the beginning of October ;-)
Hugs and all that stuff,
Lara
larissa.mischke@aiesec.de
I don't remember any head butting in cricket ... do you? A bit of tea throwing and maybe, MAYBE if things get rough we could throw a scone, but no head butting.
jennifer:) dont let the white 'uniform' and baggy green caps fool ya...
btw tom, did u hear the aussies have got a new one-day color.....
Jen, I think the great "moustache tweaking incident" of 1834 was the last occasion where we saw physical conflict on a cricket field....
dhruv - yeah, saw the new uniform, looks nice. I like the dark green which matches the baggy green caps, its a good look. I always liked green and gold though.....although maybe there was a little too much gold...
Okay, so the whole head butt thing was about that.
Hmmm, interesting.