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Zidane: A moment to blot an entire career
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11/07/2006 20:27:22
 
 
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11/07/2006 18:02:35
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Sports
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Soccer
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01134903
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What you're talking about is #3 on the list. No?

>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
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>Thanks Tracy.
>
>
>>Have you seen this?
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>>http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/hockey/story?id=1340012
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>>>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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