{"id":446,"date":"2006-07-11T17:47:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T09:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2006\/07\/2006_07_11_1747.php"},"modified":"2006-07-11T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T09:47:28","slug":"using-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/11\/using-your-head","title":{"rendered":"Using your head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what was arguably the <em>only<\/em> interesting development that happened in the world of <strong>Soccer<\/strong> (hehehe), I just had to know what the hell happened with the French team captain <em>Zidane.<\/em> Just go on YouTube right now and see what the most viewed videos are.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say, I&#8217;m a sucker for sports violence. In any case, it&#8217;s about high time things got messy in Soccer&#8230; gimme some more of that and <em>maybe<\/em> I&#8217;ll consider calling it football.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Marco Matterazzi called the French star the Italian equivalent of <em>nigger,<\/em> and then insulted both his mother and his Muslim background by saying he is the <em>&#8220;son of a terrorist whore.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Read full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=395046&amp;#38;in_page_id=1770\" title=\"View article\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<p>Kidding aside, while I thoroughly enjoyed watching how he floored that Italian (could&#8217;ve been anyone really). In the spirit of proper &#8220;sportsmanship,&#8221; I have to wonder how the general population would take this incident. Would you think that given the reason of his outburst, people would now feel sympathy for <em>Zidane?<\/em> Hell, when I was reading up on Digg, most of them were actually <em>defending<\/em> the frenchman. Maybe they were just like me, who appreciated a good &#8216;ol can of <em>whoop-ass.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that he should&#8217;ve let it slide, at least for the time being. For as long as they&#8217;re in the field, I consider trash-talk part of the game &#8211; oh and <em>whaddyaknow,<\/em> it worked didn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bummer though that the info from the lip-readers will be circulated worldwide in the following days. While the trash-talk <em>did<\/em> work&#8230; I doubt that the Italians would be content with winning the way they did &#8211; given the degree of psychological abuse they had to resort to. Who knows, maybe they will. Does it really matter?<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;d save the pain till <em>after the game.<\/em> then just wait for him by the dugout <em>then<\/em> beat the living shit out of him. That way, you don&#8217;t get penalized, and you can take your time with the poor sucker. Of course the drawback would be that, unlike what this incident has accomplished, the said sport wouldn&#8217;t be able to gain the interest of those who would normally not care.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this one post I found amusing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sticks and stones may break my bones&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Then the replying comment said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;but words may cause irreparable emotional damage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>HAHAHAHA<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what was arguably the only interesting development that happened in the world of Soccer (hehehe), I just had to know what the hell happened with the French team captain Zidane. Just go on YouTube right now and see what the most viewed videos are. What can I say, I&#8217;m a sucker for sports violence. &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/11\/using-your-head\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using your head&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[452,617,1086,1332],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-france","tag-italy","tag-soccer","tag-zidane"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}