"That incident" A conclusion!

From "The Guardian"

Rob Smyth
Thursday July 20, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

'So if I do this to you, you'll get banned as well? Cool' Photograph: AFP/Getty.

"The sanitation of football continues apace: now, it seems, even verbal provocation is unacceptable, after Fifa today banned Marco Materazzi for two matches for his part in Zinedine Zidane's infamous sending-off during the World Cup final.

Zidane's violent conduct inevitably produced a three-match suspension, which will come into effect should he come out of retirement, while he was also fined 7500 Swiss francs (£3260). Materazzi is 5000 Swiss francs (£2170) worse off."

Pete's Points:

Well finally there is an end to this story.

I have to say that the author in writing about "The sanitation of football" has missed something.

English sports (in the past at least) have been famous for something called 'fair play'.

What with English (insert the name of the sport here) hooligans everywhere these days it is not suprising the journalists are also caught up in the modern trend that seems to be pervasive in the UK namely, "let's not talk about fair play, let's not talk about sport as a sport, lets just have a free for all brawl! Let's get totally pissed and then make total fools of ourselves and create disharmony, as much damage as possible and put it all down to 'enthusiastic support for our team'."

There is another English expression that comes to mind when I see stuff like this "Bollocks!"