Justice is Served

Kassets

couldn’t agree with you more bud!!

Aaron, you mentioned you heard some players saying ::get up you pussy!!”, afetr contact or a foul.

I wonder why players are saying this, maybe the refs amd fifa should start cracking down on divers instead. In the National hockey league a player receives a warning letter after the first blatant dive. after the 2nd dive he gets fined. This may help the refs and FIFA solve the problem.

FINES must be huge though, as these players make tons of cash.

Posted from  Canada

The FIFA ruling does set a new precedent, but is it a bad one?

The only defense of trashtalking is that everyone does it and has done it for sometime. Is that a valid defense? Should something be the way it is because that’s how it’s always been?

I feel sorry for Materazzi because he is the first person to be punished, but this precedent is good for the game. I hope it’s enforced fairly (so forwards who talk trash are also punished)

Posted from  Dominican Republic

This ruling just proves that FIFA and ALL FRENCH PEOPLE (terrorists or not) are all PUSSIES!!!!

Posted from  Canada

hey Aaron, seems like your use of the card was judicious if it kept tempers from flaring, I gotta say your call that “it’s because of crap like that that Zidane didn’t get to finish his career properly.” was pretty bad, sounds like you were punishing the player for Materazzi’s act rather than his own.

as ETucker says, its a difficult new precedent, but it may be a good one for the game.

Posted from  Australia

The important messege is that neither headbutting nor provocking is allowed. We’re all human beings with emotions and deffects and for Matarazi to choose the most sensitive player at that time, degrades himself as a fair player and his whole team as a bunch of cheats. For Zizou to agree to do community service with youngsters just shows the quality/modesty of this player. All around he’ll be remembered as a class player while Matarazi ,some will question his whole teams methods of obtaining the WC.

Posted from  United Kingdom

Whatever caused it, whoever started it, Zidane acted on it and he committed the unthinkable.

Does he deserve the Golden Ball? Was he the Best Player in the FIFA WC 2006? Obviously the Committee thought otherwise.

I can only wonder what Zidane must be thinking now… or in 5 or 10 years. To me, it would have been an honorable deed on his part if he had volunteered to give it back for the true spirit of the sport. Then maybe the headbutt incident wouldn’t be that unpleasant each time we think about it.

Actually Aaron, your Zidane comment was uncalled for to the player. You let your personal hero worship of Zidane get in the way of your job. Review Zidane’s record. He’s no angel

Posted from  United States

man what are you talking about, seriously aaron are you sure you know, cos i dont think u do … provocation happnes in every single game … just read this article (and that goes for all fo you) and you will understand how FIFA and Sepp Blatter are a corrupt as anything and they only punished matrix cos hes italian and they wanted to preserve the legacy of Zidane

http://www.eurosport.com/football/worldcup/2006/sport_sto929153.shtml

Posted from  Australia

ohh every one sign this

http://www.difendiamomaterazzi.it/

Its for materazzi and the injustice he recieved

Posted from  Australia

oh yea and to back up Todds argument Zidane has recieved something like 14 reds in his career .. Aaron read this other article ok .. and then hopefully you will see tghe diffrence between being right and wrong (zidane)

Basically Zidanne was a great player but was not a champion .. moreover he was a pig .. just look at this

http://www.goal.com/en/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=91074

Posted from  Australia

Lets be honest here, what Matterazi said to Zidane wasn’t a plain simple insult. I am sure Zidane knows all too well not to react to such all too common insults for he heard it through out his career. But, but for the interest of world peace and harmony which is a fragile thing these days, Zidane nor Fifa opted to not mention it to the public no matter what. Therefore, the outcome as we see it today was the usual penalty of fine and match ban to make it look like an ordinary insult situation. Of course Fifa made the mistake of calling for the inquiry, they should have deal with it like everyday situation, because it’s not the first or the last we such actions in the field, but they weren’t expecting to hear what they heard. Anyway, it’s a cover up, I don’t have a problem with it as long as it keeps the people of the world in good harmony, but Matterrazzi was simply a colateral casualty. He should take it as a man because he knows exactly what he said and it is not good for him or his people, just keep the lid on it lad! in situations like this Diplomacy should prevail.
I would rather prefer if people moved on and started concentrating on more important issues in the world of football.

Posted from  United States

Aaron,

I an in agreement with your actions on the pitch, but you must agree that a referee cannot be everywhere on the field, and many incidents occur away from the action. Who is to judge those incidents which cannot be overheard? At least Materazzi must be given some credit for admitting his verbal abuse because the evidence was there for all to see but not hear. We could easily assume, but without certainty, that words were exchanged. But what does a referee do when there’s no video record and he is on the other side of the field? To be honest, I don’t think much, if anything, will change and players will not “pause to think about their behavior on the pitch”.

Posted from  Australia

What r u doing posting links at the expense of Zidane?? It doesn t make Materazzi look any better…

Give us a break with your Zidane bashing… Both players are guilty and hold bad records, however aside his hot temper Zidane was talented and brillant with a football, he won everything and achieved great performances. However Materazzi isn t known for such great career nor is he as talented, nowhere near brillant…Materazzi’s fouls record is way worse than that of Zidane

Let me join the party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGJ4grSnN38&feature=Favorites&page=1&t=t&f=b

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBDFRQwRFRw&search=materazzi

Posted from  France

It stuns me that there are still people out there defending Zidane and his actions.

In a wierd way I admire ZZ defenders….Ignorance is bliss and makes life so simple.

Posted from  Canada

Welsh .. you are so wrong .. you cant puncish some one for saying something such as oh you mum is a sl*t, because its just to make you react liek what happned to zidane .. and why have they nevr suspended any one before, for provocating??? because they wanted to overshadow itays world cup win .. im pritty sure that wne eva some on hits another player its because they say stuff to them in the game … ohh also did you see when Zidane was stepping on Grossos feet when they were making a wall .. so zidane is just a pig

EVERY ONE GO TO THIS SITE AND SIGN UR NAME

http://www.difendiamomaterazzi.it/

Its for materazzi and the injustice he recieved

Posted from  Australia

Give up mate, almost nobody’s on Materazzi side

Materazzi is a great deal worse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGJ4grSnN38&feature=Favorites&page=1&t=t&f=b

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBDFRQwRFRw&search=materazzi

ps: Take off your sun glasses before watching the videos

Posted from  France

Everybody go to this site!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBDFRQwRFRw&search=materazzi

ps: Take off your sun glasses before watching the videos

Posted from  France

so what moron … why dont u put up all the times zidane has seen red .. ohh that right its coz ur blind

Posted from  Australia

Lol, you are even more stupid than I thought…

I just posted a link to counterbalance your one sided previous post that was just aiming at bashing zidane. So now I can return your silly comment straight to you: why don t u put up with all the times Materazzi has seen red ?

My first post was just there to get your reaction which in turn would reveal the great moron that you are. I guess I was right

Posted from  France

Good job aaron, i agree, I also referee and tell the players before the game that I will not tolerate any rubbish of that sort from any player and have only had to dish out one yellow for such utter trash. If only FIFA ref’s followed the line and could understand more languages as well, caus I think their might be that sort of barriers as well. Where racism and trash talk are going under the radar thanks to it, being not understood by the referees.

Posted from  Australia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NOHinTLFOA

Posted from  Australia

awesome link Irish

hey does anyone have footage of the time an english ref celebrated a goal? He apparantly later claimed he was ‘celebrating because he’d allowed the advantage so well…’

Posted from  Australia

btw here’s the story I mentioned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/fa_carling_premiership/633889.stm

would love to see the video if anyone has it

Posted from  Australia

For many years soccer was a true sport, where players played and loved the sport.

Since USA 94 FIFA realised that the business of soccer was more important than the game,
In order to achive that buisiness levels and turn this sport into a money making machine it needed actors.

Now we have the over paid actors posing as players.
Then to add more confusion to the mix referees are picked not by their ability to referee but for their phisical appearance and general good looks.
Does the referee fit the image of a hollywood star.

Never mind if he can handle the game, as long as he looks good, that is all that matters.

Who remembers Mario Van der Ende, over weight a bit slow, but what a MASTER at running a game, by letting the players play, and exercising his duty as referee when it was needed.

Today we have many referees who look nice, but have no idea what and how the game is played.
All they know is what they are instructed to do because must be instructed THEY DO NOT HAVE THE INSTINCT of the game.

Add to that coaches who are STARS (Mourinho) and you have incidents like Zidanes, then FIFA and Mr. Blatter continue to insult everyones inteligence by making excuses for one of the main cast Stars.

It is very simple, Zidane is an spoiled brat that got caught and should have been punished severly and not be allowed to make excuses.

For those of us who played, how often did an opponent tried to get your concentration of the game by quietly telling that he slept with your wife last night?

We would be banned from our team if we took an action that put the rest of our team mates at a disadvantage.

The real players smiled and said, ” i hope you enjoyed it because I am married to your Sister” and got on with the game, rather then be so offended and forget what we were there to do.
PLAY THE SPORT.

Today we (FIFA) allows these Stars to come on TV and try to justify what they did by saying that they were offended by the action of the opponent.

Well WE Are All Offended by the lack of respect that Zidane and players like him have for the game.

They are not bigger then the game.

Zidane you Sir are an imposter.

And for those of you who make excuses for this behaviour, all I have to say is that I am glad you did not referee when i did, and better yet when i played.

Posted from  Canada

I’m a bit surprised you didn’t issue a sendoff. It met the criteria for ‘foul, abusive, or insulting language’.

Posted from  United States