Much Ado About Nothing

ZZ...Zizou...Zi-dane...

Call him what you will...these are chants of love...of admiration...

And he's no fallen hero. What he did was justified. I stood by it on the day of the World Cup Finals when it happened, I stand by it today when reams have been written about it - SOMETHING provoked ZZ enough to butt head. We now know what that something was.

And even if it wasn't - the man who was the darling of the world and being felicitated by every FIFA, Tom and Harry of the world, was suddenly a pariah? Take your double standards and shoot them down the toilet, man! Did he suddenly stop being the football god that he is? Clearly not.

The golden cup be damned. Would you stand anywhere and listen to someone call you the son of a terrorist whore? I wouldn't.