Domenech is saying that Materazzi made a meal of it!!

Raymond Domenech hammered home his contention that Materazzi had robbed his side of World Cup glory.

"The sending off of Zidane changed the match; that was the key moment of the game," he insisted. "We had been playing better than Italy in extra-time and you could see they were just waiting for penalties.

"It was a pity that we were without Zidane for the last 10 minutes, it affected our balance and perhaps it should not have happened."

"The referee was not on our side," he added, his tone growing increasingly bitter by the word. "I don't know what Materazzi told Zidane . All I know was the man of the match was not Andrea Pirlo but Materazzi; he scored the equaliser and he had Zidane sent off.

"It's sad, it's a pity. Materazzi really put on a great show when he fell down - we know how these things work."

He's a deluded fool - Materazzi wasn't doing a Van Bommel. He was absolutely felled by that one. Looked like ZZ got him right in the solar plexus and knocked all the breath out of him.

Posted By: Old Git, Jul 10, 09:26:23