Played for over 100 minutes of football, each time he had the ball a swarm of blue shirts came to him. Throwing sledge hammers at his shins, shoving him, sat on him. Thus, he injured his shoulder. But he could not come off. No. This is his story. His fairy tale.

Then came the 110th minute. Materazzi was lying on the pitch. No one knew why. Then, the replay showed that Zizou had done this...

But whY?? He's often the most patient man on the pitch but last night he came up to Materazzi full of malice and shot his balding head at his chest.

Why??? WHY? That was all I could think of, rooted to my seat in horror. It was inevitable. It was a definite RED card. Fairy tales are supposed to have happy endings....

It was a torture to watch one of the gods leave the pitch forever, especially leaving like this.

A replay later revealed what could have been the reason Zidane wanted to kill Materazzi. The asswipe was bear hugging Zizou when he was waiting for a cross. Freakin gay.

Zidane did not get what he should have been given. It was a foul. Hence, with encouragement from his injured shoulder, he decided that murder would be the best way to settle it.

At least, it's what I think happened.