Coup de Boule

In the Wall Street Journal this week... front page, a story on Zidane head butting in the World Cup in Germany (near Paris). My view on this kind of behaviour is clear, dreadfully disgraceful and such are poor reflection on the everyone involved that I can barely talk.

Firstly, it is incomprehensible that such a paper would publish such a story four days after it happened, but then to sully the paper's front page with a color (colour) photo, what ever next! I thought those clever sketch artists can draw anything with just a very thin black pen.

The actual head butt has raised a few eyebrows over here in the US... parents up in arms about the bad example that this sets for our youth.... pppplease! You all said soccer was too boring, you wanted bigger goals, more parental fighting in the stands, ref replays so that we could decide if the ball was out or in.... Well, you wish has come true! Maybe you now want to rename the game to its true American title: Foot Hockey.

It the sensitive words of one American on foregn policy: "the Italians are cunning and Machiavellian; the French are immoral..."*


God save Zidane


* The Chinese are heathen and inscrutable; the Japanese are treacherous; the arrogant
Germans go berserk and run amuck; the Italians are cunning and Machiavellian;
the French are immoral; and the Dutch are stubborn. They are Wops, Spigs, Frogs, Gooks. Polocks, and Bohunks, who eat raw fish, snails , octupi, and grasshoppers. This alone is enough to condemn them. Colonel Willis M. Smyser, USAF, Member of the Faculty, ICAF in 1960: