[freedomlover]

"Practice. Everytime two soccer players touch each other, they flop to the ground and pretend to be injured."

I have to admit I drew my share of penalty shots this way.

I have to agree that there looks like a bit of embellishment even if it was an unexpected shot. Just looking at the dynamics of the two bodies lead me to believe that.

And yes I have been head butted in the chest - twice. It hurts like hell (sprained my upper back) and stuns your whole body and is a pretty good way of staggering someone. I fell once, backward, but my knees crumbled well before before my back hit the floor. And not before I was able to dig a few fingernails across the side of the guy's face on my way down.

[rmlew]

The refs did seem to call red flags too easily. (Did you see the England-Portugal game? A ref kicked out Beckham's replacement for hitting his opponent's shin and tripping him while getting a ball. This wasn't a slinde tackle, but a clean hit. I did that dozens of times on defense.)

Still Zizou's action was uncalled for and dangerous.