The 2006 World Cup final gave one of the game’s greatest players, Zidane, the opportunity to write a storybook ending to his career by guiding France to glory against Italy. Instead, he ended the ...

"Dreadful, Zidane's headbutt on Materazzi was dreadful ... nobody has ever made the sport look more like art.

That episode never should have happened. In the tension of that final in Berlin, amid the bickering and insults, Zidane offered me his shirt and I said no, that I preferred his sister. Then he ...

Zidane, the opportunity to write a storybook ending to his career by guiding France to glory against Italy. Instead, he ended the evening in disgrace after launching a stunning headbutt into the ...