Glorious Post-Breakfast Backrub News
du Nord, July 11, 2006
Italina defender Marco Materazzi: "I did insult him, it's true. But I categorically did not call him a terrorist. I'm not cultured and I don't even know what an Islamic terrorist is."~ ~ ~ ~FIFA will open an official investigation into the head-butting by Zinedine Zidane of Marco Materazzi during the World Cup final Sunday.- The New York Times World Cup weblog has some crazy stories about English tabloid newspapers hiring lip-readers to figure out what the two were saying to each other. And that same papers reporter Jere Longman has a story on what was supposedly said to provoke Zidane's idiotic retort.~ ~ ~ ~The Times also reports that 16.9 million Americans watched the World Cup final on ABC and Univision. Not bad. And some of the viewing comparisons are quite interesting.-BBC and ITV in England combined for 20.5 million viewers. 17 million on BBC1 and 3.5 million on ITV1.~ ~ ~ ~Simon Kuper writes about the player I thought dominated the World Cup - Italian defender Fab Cannavaro. And also a story on the m