I’ve just watched the World Cup Final, and for the life of me I can’t understand why Zinedine Zidane decided to head butt Marco Materazzi for what seems to have been nothing. He has disgraced himself on what should have been his final crowning moment as he retires from international football. Although he nearly got away with it, as neither of the assistants or referee saw the offending head butt, but it looks like the fourth (or fifth) official saw a video replay and passed the message on to the referee who promptly whipped out the red card. The French fans weren’t happy; but at the end of the day you cant behave like that on a football field, and the referee did the only thing he could do, and that was show Zidane red! There will be many that will say that Zidane let the team down and that’s why they were beaten by the Italians 5 – 3 on penalties, but Zidane has let himself down, and everyone will remember him for that head butt and sending off, and not for his amazing playing career. Seems that Marco Materazzi was in all the action today; firstly conceding the penalty that put the French into the lead, and then redeemed himself scoring an excellent headed goal from a corner set piece 12 minutes later. You have to say that Italy were unlucky hitting the crossbar from yet another set piece, and having a goal disallowed for offside, but on the balance of things I think that the Italians were worthy winners. As a neutral I didn’t mind which team won; and enjoyed the fast paced game, but Zidane’s sending off soured the proceedings, and he will be dominating the headlines in both the UK and France tomorrow as the villain of the piece instead of hero on his final International appearance, it’s sad to see such a great player bow out of International football in this way!
RE: My earlier post… After a lot of thought I have decided that I should find myself a flat of my own, seems that I am the bad guy of the trio, and maybe I am. I know that I sometimes overreact to things, but after all the shit that has happened to me in the past, I tend to put up a defence to stop anyone getting close, and probably piss people off in the process. So it’s best for me to live on my own, then I can’t fall out with anyone except me, myself and I! I know that I have been getting more and more emotionally unstable over the past few years, and in many ways I wish that I never got un-banned from C103/JFK’s, that’s when things started to go downhill again, and moving out from Clifton Place to here was an even bigger mistake, I gave up the relative stability that I needed then walked into this house thinking it was going to be my permanent home, only to find the sale of the house had fallen through, for which I am blaming no-one, then its back to the uncertainly, and all my feelings of discontent came flooding back and has been eating away at me until the explosion last Saturday (1st July) and the confrontation on Friday night. Let’s face it, things are not going to get better, I need to spend time alone and re-evaluation where my life is going, because at the moment, I hate my life, and myself for what I have become, I never used to be like this 5 years ago, it’s no single thing, its just everything gotten on top of me. I don’t even want to interact with people too much just in case I “explode” again, and I hurt someone or get hurt myself, both physically and emotionally! Yes I know that this is some heavy shit, but I need an outlet somewhere and this is it as I don’t think I have any friends left anymore, mainly due to my own actions, so it’s lock myself away and sort my head out!
On a lighter note; I have switched to Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird as my browser and email client solutions, I’ve had enough of this Microsoft bullshit! I haven’t actually used Internet Explorer for ages, but been using a browser based on IE technology called Maxthon. But now I have made the switch properly from IE, as I have found a load of plug-ins for Firefox that makes it act more like Maxthon, just without the security holes.
In Formula One, Juan Pablo Montoya has decided to make the move to the American NASCAR series and hooks up with old Champ Car boss Chip Ganassi. Which makes things a little more interesting in Formula One next season, as we know that Fernando Alonso is off to McLaren, and with Kimi Raikkonen rumoured to have already signed for Ferrari next season. That leaves a seat open at McLaren, maybe a place for Ferrari refugee Felipe Massa should Raikkonen move to Ferrari and Michael Schumacher doesn’t retire as expected. Renault test and third driver Heikki Kovalainen is looking likely to take Fernando Alonso’s seat at Renault, alongside current driver Giancarlo Fisichella who has signed a one year extension to his contract! Of course all this is hear’say at the moment, and anything could happen in the F1’s “silly season” (to quote Murray Walker) – “and it usually does”.
