He won the Golden Ball this year for being the best player in this tournament. He’s one of the greatest players ever to wear the French colours. Sadly, shamefully, what Zinedine Zidane will be best remembered for now is headbutting an Italian player late in the final game of the World Cup, for which he received a red card. His team could not recover; I fear his legacy will suffer the same fate.

.:.

I picked the wrong time to walk to work this morning. It was raining, the kind of rain that comes in at 45 degrees and laughs at puny umbrellas like mine. Thus, the backs of my legs are soaked. Could life get any worse?

Oh yeah. See above.

[tags]zinedine zidane, headbutt, a hard rain’s a-gonna fall[/tags]