[MikefromOhio]

So you were involved in a contact sport while you were head-butted. Sort of like how a boxer is expecting a jab or uppercut. This is a totally different scenario.

You've obviously never watched or participated in wrestling at any level....you don't expect headbutts or anything of that sort....

Now we're discussing leg movements. I thought we were discussing how he should not have went down.

Don't try to deflect. the left movement was part of the entire act and PROVES that he was embellishing the fall. YOu don't want to see it, but it's there.

THANKFULLY we won't have to worry about which mullet wearing one-named wonder will be kicking a ball into a net for another 4 years.

[onja]

When wrestling, you're grounded, ready for an attack. Sure, a head-butt is unexpected, but you're still fairly prepared for it. The Italian wasn't grounded or expecting it at all. In soccer you don't very often get headbutted when just standing there, 50 feet from the ball. There would be no reason why he would be in a wrestling or fighting stance.

I'm small. But I could lay out a NBA player if he was just standing there, unsuspecting and off-balance. If he was grounded, ready for an attack, I'd hardly scratch him.

BTW-I still think the Italians are stupid divers and that Zidane is cool. He just was stupid and let himself get provoked.