Thursday, July 13, 2006

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Just as one embassador of sport established himself among the legends, another, already a legend, bowed out of the game on a sour note. Yes I'm refering to Roger Federer & Zinedine Zidane respectively.
Roger Federer beat Nadal in 4 sets to show him who's boss on grass, preventing Nadal's head from growing any bigger than it already is, winning his fourth consecutive Wimbledon title - one more Wimby title next year and he'll be in a league of his own. However, Zinedine Zidane, the ex-Cannes, ex-Juve, ex-Real player and ex-France national left the pitch in the 2nd period of extra time for an early shower, and an early end to his career - a few minutes premature in fact. The sight of him headbutting Materazzi like a raging bull who just caught sight of a red cape, that I will never forget. But what I will forget is that the French reached the finals of this World Cup. 20 years down the road when this blog will probably be dead, I'll remember an Italian triumph in the world cup in 2006. I'll probably forget the venue as well. But my point is, the losers are never remembered, only the victors have their names engraved on the trophy and with a piece of history that cannot be robbed from them. So what if the French reached the finals? They didn't win it. They got so far to lose it all, and in the end it doesn't even matter. Sounds familiar eh? That's because I just lifted that out of Linkin Park's "In the End".
Before I end this short post devoid of photos or gossip, I would like to say a few things.
1. Materazzi should have been man of the match because he scored the equalizer, a penalty and managed to ruffle Zidane (not an easy thing to do mind you).
2. Italy deserved to win the world cup.
3. Fabio Cannavaro should have been voted as the player of the tournament.
4. Lippi undoubtedly was the best manager of the tournament.
5. Graham Poll was officially the worst ref EVER. (3 yellow cards...)
6.Federer deserved to beat Nadal and should beat him everytime. I mean what would that tell kids if Nadal kept on winning? Federer's positive tennis would give a positive influence on kids.

Thanks.


| patty fought for sanity @ 4:36 PM|

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