AP Sports just printed an article saying how Zidane’s headbutt “sullied the image of the game when it needed a lift and should have been celebrating its biggest occasion.”
Uhh…right.
The rest of the article goes on to say how much soccer sucked this year, trotting out the usual suspects: Italy’s match-fixing scandal, the [...]

Okay, three things I want to see in the Vikash Dhorasoo film, “The Substitute”:
1. Zidane’s Headbutt
2. Titi’s melon énorme
3. Domenech’s tarot cards.
4. Zidane’s Headbutt
Oh, wait, that’s four. But I think Zidane always merits a double mention.
So are any of these things actually in the movie, filmed by perennial [...]

Martha and Bob have covered the details, so I’ll just say: C’mon, guys. Suck it up and work through your post-World-Cup grief the way I did:
With lots of French wine and a couple hundred Zidane YouTube videos.
Here. Let me help the process along.

It seems that Marco Materazzi wants to come to France to promote his new book, “What I Really Said to Zidane.” Problem is, France has said that they are unable (and unwilling) to expend the effort and money which would be necessary to guarantee his safety.
(Aren’t this guy’s fifteen minutes up yet???)
Hey, [...]

World Cup 2006 is over. Finished. Done. So this will be my only post about the events of last July. But I was reading through old World Cup Blog posts and this Zidane quote was just too juicy to pass up:
“…there is nothing special happening around me concerning this being my [...]

The French camp put forward a positive point of view despite the 2-1 defeat to Slovakia last night. Raymond Domenech said, ‘this is the kind of game that helps you prepare for the future, I’m certain that this match was good for us’.

Raymond Domenech suffered his first defeat in eighteen games when France went down 2-1 to Slovakia last night. I didn’t get to see the game but from reports it seems like the crowd at Stade de France got a little restless early, jeering Domenech and Fabien Barthez.

France have been involved in some of the best World Cup games over the last thirty years, and the Brazil-France quarterfinal in Guadalajara in 1986 is one such game.

Zinedine Zidane has been telling his website that he has eighteen months ‘at most’ left on his playing career, his Real Madrid contract ends in June 2007.

Who will be France coach after the World Cup? A report in the Times today suggests it could be in demand Paul Le Guen, the 41 year old former Lyon boss who has been getting a lot of press in the UK because underperforming Glasgow Rangers are dying to have him come manage them.