Football Footnote

Finally, Italy's Marco Materrazzi came clean in his Gazzetta dello Sport interview about what was really said that fateful July 9 evening. Apparently, when he brought down Zinedine Zidane by pulling on his shirt, Zizou then told him that he could have the jersey at the end of the match. At which Materazzi then told the Frenchman that he would rather have his sister.

The gall! Is he a jackass or is he JACKASS?
Then he was quoted as saying:

"It's not a particularly nice thing to say, I recognize that. But loads of players say worse things...I didn't even know he had a sister before all this happened."

He knew it wasn't nice but said it anyway? How stupid was that? And I suppose he thinks that just because there are worse things being said on the pitch excuses what he said.

Maybe he doesn't have a sister of his own. If he does, then I pity the poor girl. Let's just hope this doesn't happen to any of his female relatives because there's no doubt that there'll be no Marco Materrazzi that'll come to the their defense.

And maybe it wasn't enough for him to appear in football history books as a member of the 2006 World Cup-winning squad. Unfortunately, alongside Zinedine Zidane's legend, Marco Materrazzi will be nothing but a footnote. That's just too damn bad.