Zidane=egg head

2 WC nights in a row and still can go to school on time.remarkable.missed the first hour of the Final,but i'm convinced it was classically boring Italian clamshells anyway,so I watched all the extra time.unfortunately for most France supporters they won't have quite a night to remember about Zidane's retirement,when he became the last of the trio of Henry,Ribery and Vieira to get off the pitch,in the silliest way possible

2nd half extra time:headbutting Materazzi after he tugged at Zidane's shirt was promptly dealt with a red card.quite a miracle that the 10 on survival training managed to hold on to penalties.this time round the gaffe of the shots is Trezeguet's unfortunate crossbar bouncer,no doubt Italy would need 12 years to banish the memory of the flying dragon that gave the cup to Brazil,but they did exocrise everything with all 5 politically correct ones.

without stress,the German 3rd place seems more exciting.Kahn does have a night to remember after all,and looks good for a testimonial match with Bayern-_______(fill in team youself) after 1 or 2 seasons more.as for Schweinstieger,he's got 2 marvellous longshots,1 own goal forced from Portugal and a gold card for showing his 6-pecs just before being subbed out.there';s no fireworks for Italy as they would have to deal with Juve next and the prospect of them going to C3 sounds too bad to believe

mann i'm so well shacked that I'm going to wait for the EPL...but then i can't wait to attack my sinful tub of home made dulce de leche semi-freddo,so it's more or less mugging time