[Jameison]

"- rough sport, other guy hard-tweaks your nip."

The point is, Materazzi's alleged "nipple pinching'" was done in the heat of battle, with both of them struggling for the ball.
That was with the ball in play.
There's plenty of shirt pulling, hand pulling, etc in soccer, and some of that shirt pulling can result in a nipple being pulled too, all that with the ball in play.

What Zidane did however is completely different.
He head butted Materazzi with no ball in play between them at all, and with he Zidane already jugging away from Materazzi.

It just doesn't make sense.
Only thing I can think of is Materazzi said something bad to Zidane.
But hey, in the NBA, players have been trash talking each other for as long as I can remember.
If people kept head butting each other for trash talking, we wouldn't have any games played at all.

[xactlyright]

But hey, in the NBA, players have been trash talking each other for as long as I can remember.

Larry Bird was amongst the best, and Adam Morrison was the best in college BB last year. Doubt he will change once he's in the NBA.