Zinedine Zidane v Marco Materazzi
The source of the spat was Zidane’s sending off in the 2006 World Cup final after head-butting Materazzi in the chest, allegedly provoked by insults from the Italian towards his opponent’s sister. Time hasn’t helped to heal the wounds, either. Zidane said in 2010 that he would ‘rather die’ than apologise to Materazzi, who in 2012 tweeted a picture of himself smiling and standing next to a statue depicting the incident.
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