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Zidane: A moment to blot an entire career
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11/07/2006 18:02:35
 
 
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Sports
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Soccer
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No, I haven't seen that before. A good list, but I don't know how the game I mentioned isn't on that list

Thanks Tracy.


>Have you seen this?
>
>http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/hockey/story?id=1340012
>
>>SNIP
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>
>>He was already out of the kitchen, dragged back (along with 2 others as i heard it) for one last go. And though I don't see a lot of soccer (football) I'd bet that there are others in the sport who are less than 'gentlemanly'.
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>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)(?
>>
>>I dunno about a "dirty" game.
>>Ironically, a few years later in Montreal the Canadiens and the USSR put on the very best exhibition of hockey that I have witnessed in my lifetime. It was simply beautiful and ended, in a tie.
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