Thursday
13Jul2006
"No regrets"
Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 8:10AM It was an inexcusable gesture and to them, and the people in education whose job it is to show children what they should and shouldn't do, I want to apologise.
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I can't regret it because if I do it would be like admitting that he was right to say all that. And above all, it was not right.
We always talk about the reaction, and inevitably it must be punished. But if there is no provocation, there is no reaction.
First of all you have to say there is provocation, and the guilty one is the one who does the provoking. The response is to always punish the reaction, but if I react, something has happened.
Do you imagine that in a World Cup final like that, with just 10 minutes to go to the end of my career, I am going to do something like that because it gives me pleasure?
Zinedine Zidane --- Still a hero
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Zidane is a proud man!!
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'The ZZ Rule" can be applied to international conflicts : Provocation = Response = Punishment of the Response but not the Provocation.
Israel v Palestine ? US v It's a long list
"My action was unforgivable, but I'm saying to you that the person who committed the provocation should also be punished" (Zidane)
Indeed.
Perhaps Zidane has done a last favour to soccer by doing what he did.