Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

As a temporary EU citizen, I believe it´s time I come forth and comment on the World Cup. Let´s forget for a moment that both of the two teams in the final kind of lucked out (don´t get me wrong; I love both Italy and France, but let´s face it: world soccer champs?) and turn to the real conundrum: Zinedine Zidane. ZZ, the Ice Man, this year´s winner of the Golden Ball (snicker), in the last game of his career, in which he was pretty much guranteed to win both MVP of the tournament and become a world champion, what a way to end. Oh, wait a minute, except for the fact that he got ejected from the game in the second half for head butting an Italian player in the chest. When asked about it later, he said that the Italian had "made a very serious comment" to him during the match. Well, it must have been. Having been given a red card, Zidane was irreplaceable on the field, putting France at a one-man disadvantage, which may have explained their crushing defeat. My favorite part of the debacle, though, was the fact that Jaques Chiraq himself made a public statement, vindicating Zidane (my personal favorite Frenchman) as someone exemplary of all that is good in the sport of soccer.

Allons-y, les enfants de la Patrie!