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>>Never mind who saw it first or whatever, he was lucky not to have been arrested for assault and, but for the strength of his victim's rib cage/heart, maybe murder or manslaughter.
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>Hard to say, with all the diving that happens in the game.

Ain't it the truth!

>It looked pretty brutal to me, but who knows if there wasn't also some fine acting accompanying the deed. You know, just to assure an outcome.

I think in this case, even if it weren't as serious as it looked, the acting was justified!

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>Zidane apparently has a record of such behaviour, so it seems probable to me that he was being goaded and finally snapped.

If you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.

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>We (Canada) had a hockey series against the USSR in 1972 where we squeaked a win in the last seconds of an 8 game series. Years later I heard one of the players relate how the coach had told him to get a player out of the series, so he went out and slashed the guy and broke his ankle.
>The "win" became a sad event for me rather than a great memory.

Was that the infamopus really dirty game, or is that another I'm thinking of (maybe USA vs USSR)(?