Sepp’s Blatty!

Zidane 

Apparently Sepp Blatter wants to stage the epic reconcilliation between Marco Materazzi and Zinedine Zidane at Robben Island, scene of Nelson Mandela’s incarceration. 

Says Blatter : ‘We are working on bringing together Materazzi and Zidane. There are different possibilities and one of them is Robben Island in South Africa where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years.’

Umm… why? I don’t understand the link between almost 50 years of Apartheid and a football match. Perhaps the message is that there is more to life than sport and the location is meant to put it all in perspective. But why Robben Island? Why not Auschwitz (perfect photo opportunity under the ‘Arbeit Macht Frei‘ sign)? How about Ground Zero? Hiroshima? Why not just forget about the whole silly affair? (The Zidane headbutt… not Auschwitz…) 

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