World Cup Winners: Edit

Well imagine Gretzgy, in his last game before retirement, in an overtime period of the Stanley Cup final, game 7, take his stick and wallop the other team's tieing goal scorer across the head and thus getting ejected from the game... that is what happened today to Zinedine Zidane, of France, today in the 2nd overtime of the World Cup.

[edit]It has come to light that maybe the player who got the head butt may have insulted ZiZou's mother and was quite a "serious" comment. As I tell my boys all the time; don't get a retaliation penalty! Always using hockey as the example that 9/10 the one getting the penalty is the retaliator. Maybe ZiZou should have watched more hockey. Stupid thing in al this is at half time the journalists voted on who should get the Golden Boot (MVP). Zidane won by 50+ votes over a great defender in Canavaro, the Azzuri's captain. [end edit]

He headbutted an Italian in the chest, and justly got a red card. His team lost the penalty shoot out and may have won with his leadership. What a jerk.



I'm a neutral, I love the game. England was my team of choice yet were tired and lacked the gusto to win a World Cup; they got as far as they deserved.

Italy faces a wonderful night. Tomorrow will be different. The top team, Juventus, might get relegated to Seria C, a demotion of 2 leagues. In soccer, nations have a top group of 22 teams, more or less in each divison, then lesser divisons, in this case Seria B and then C.

In England the top is the Premiership and then the Champions League an then Division One and then Two. The ones below the top group fight to "go up". At the end of a season the top three go up (the 3rd place is a bit more complex in England but you get the point); the bottom three in the top group "go down". To go up is worth millions and millions in revenue... to go down is the opposite. In this case Juventus may go from being cup winners to nothings needing to fight there way back up over at least two years. AC Milan, Fiorentina, and Lazio might just drop one: Why? you ask. Because they are accused of fixing games.

The easiest was of imagining this for us Canadians is to imagine, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, Montreal Canadians and Toronto Maple Leaves all going down to the Minors.

Stay tuned and read you internet on what takes place tomorrow. Many of these world cup winners may be wondering where they will be working in the next month.