Friday, 11 June 2010

Headbutt me, Please

Zinédine Zidane’s head butt, seen around the world, on Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final.

As football fever descends upon us, and many of us become TV widows for a week, lets just go back and revisit that most beautiful of moments in the history of recent sports, the Zidane headbutt some
World Cups ago. 
Mmmmmmmm. This image was bid upon, licesned, printed and reprinted over and over again, mugs, tshirts, towels, bed sheets. One chinese man wanted to OWN the damn thing for a million huan! Take
one delicious Italian, one seriously hot enraged frenchie, add an insult and testesterone, and hey presto, a new art form is born. Never has a red card been so utterly and whole heartedly sexy. Lets see, colors, metaphors, photography, commercialism, I think I've legitimized my post as "art" worthy, South Africa, you have a lot to live up to... I say lose the ball, let them just attack each other gladiator style.





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