The Head Butt Issue

Quite sick of hearing people discussing about this issue.

Insulting the family of other players is obviously wrong. But Zidane is still guilty of the Red Card even if Materazzi did insult his mother and sister then.

While most people argued in favour of Zidane and give him a wide berth due the nature of the remarks, saying that he places more importance on his family than on the game or he is just being agitated/stressed during the game, it is sad that they do not recognise their fallacy.

Zidane is a professional soccer player but should have known better then to use violence to express his feelings on the field, which totally degrades the Beautiful Game and hence his apologies on the news. As such he is unworthy of the Golden Ball title. It would have been a different story if he head butted Materazzi after they had left the field...

His thuggish action is on the same level as a policeman abusing his power on some one that insulted his family. There is no excuse.

You might argue that professional footballers do not need to subscribe to such high moral standards. My counter-arguement would be that this is what separates a good soccer player from a legendary one.

Too bad...