France surrenders

[sigma7]

If you're like me and don't really care about soccer-slash-football, you may have missed one of the greatest moments in sports history today during the World Cup championship between France and Italy.

Tied 1-1 in overtime, the French star Zidane shows his displeasure with an Italian player thusly:



Zidane gets red-carded and ushered off the pitch (I'm sorry, "field"). Italy wins in a shootout. (YouTube clips -- first is better quality, the latter worth it to hear the announcers pleading, "Et pourquoi? Et pourquoi?")

As the wondrous lizzyrose89 put it: whisky tango foxtrot?

Comments

[iamstillthemoon.livejournal.com]

NICE

[aardy.livejournal.com]

I was reading in the paper that the red card is somewhat controversial, even if obviously well-deserved, because futbol doesn't allow the refs to issue rulings based on what the TV cameras see, and neither the ref nor the main three line judges actually saw the hit; the call to give him the red card was made by the 4th-rank judge, who just happens to also have access to a TV.

I mean, imagine someone being called "out" sliding into home plate not by the ump, the first, second, or third base refs, but rather by a ref sitting in the outfield, who "just happens" to have a perfect view of the Jumbotron.