tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post115262509152413660..comments2023-10-28T10:12:35.184-04:00Comments on Big Tent: Conflict ResolutionStephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14620478836945715498noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post-1152725111031774192006-07-12T13:25:00.000-04:002006-07-12T13:25:00.000-04:00I disagree about the quality of Zidane's play in t...I disagree about the quality of Zidane's play in the tournament and in the final game. He dominated the midfield and controlled the ball any time it got within a yard of him. Cannavara had a great tournament as well, to be sure, and it is peculiar that the voting only goes to the half of the final game, especially since they only announce it the next day.<BR/> Zidane has been world player of the dcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post-1152723876703879332006-07-12T13:04:00.000-04:002006-07-12T13:04:00.000-04:00Hopefully with more success than Chan Ho Park. Be...Hopefully with more success than Chan Ho Park. Better yet, keep playing, win the match, hoist the trophy and then hunt down Materazzi in the tunnel and beat him silly like Doug Christie and Robert Horry a few years back. Bottom line, whatever he said to him, Zidane was no longer in the game and that's exactly what Italy wanted.g_robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12486379048583197723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post-1152709609195033372006-07-12T09:06:00.000-04:002006-07-12T09:06:00.000-04:00Zidane was obviously a great player, but I'd take ...Zidane was obviously a great player, but I'd take Ronaldo over him any day. I know everyone was all choked up about the idea that Zizou would ride off into the sunset as a champion and all that, and he had played well in the elimination part of the tournament, but he simply did not do very much in the game against Italy. The penalty kick was a gimme, he had some very nice corner kicks, and the Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12616206952252181603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post-1152675024058547742006-07-11T23:30:00.000-04:002006-07-11T23:30:00.000-04:00Here are the rumors in the British press: That the...Here are the rumors in the British press: That the insult was an especially nasty one aimed at Zidane's mother who that very morning was admitted to the hospital with a fairly serious health issue. There are other rumors that he called Zizou's sister a whore and of course the racial aspect. If the one about his mother has any truth to it, I think it would be the most mitigating of the three. It dcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post-1152653560378839192006-07-11T17:32:00.000-04:002006-07-11T17:32:00.000-04:00"I did insult him, it's true," Materazzi said in T..."I did insult him, it's true," Materazzi said in Tuesday's Gazzetta dello Sport. "But I categorically did not call him a terrorist. I'm not cultured and I don't even know what an Islamic terrorist is." http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=373723&cc=5901g_robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12486379048583197723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post-1152649653172843312006-07-11T16:27:00.000-04:002006-07-11T16:27:00.000-04:00Why else would she not want to eat pork chops?Why else would she not want to eat pork chops?Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12616206952252181603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post-1152648174243468022006-07-11T16:02:00.000-04:002006-07-11T16:02:00.000-04:00Tom, I've told you a hundred times--don't call you...Tom, I've told you a hundred times--don't call your wife a terrorist.J.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07542554782098545409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post-1152634411802727372006-07-11T12:13:00.000-04:002006-07-11T12:13:00.000-04:00I'm just happy someone was actually physically tou...I'm just happy someone was actually physically touched by another player before they went sprawling to the ground, twisting and writhing in excruciating pain. If the rest of the world wants to know why Americans supposedly don't care for soccer, it's that reason. I had to turn off the championship game because in the first 5 minutes they actually played soccer for about 2 and a half minutes andg_robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12486379048583197723noreply@blogger.com