The world cup final should theoretically be about soccer, but what everybody seems to be talking about is what the hell did Materazzi tell Zidane to get head-butted. (See video here). This was Zidane's last official match, in the world cup final in front of billions of people, so what could have elicited such a reaction? Here's a summary of what lip readers from around the world are suggesting:-

... one report suggested he responded with: `I'd rather take the shirt off your wife'. - ESPN SoccerNet

... Italian lip-readers said he had called Zidane's mother a "prostitute". - Irish Independent

He then accused him of being a "liar" and wished "an ugly death to you and your family" on the day the Frenchman's mother had been taken to hospital ill. This was followed by "Go f*** yourself". - BBC Sport

... Materazzi called Zidane a "dirty terrorist." - Associated Press

But what he probably really said was, "you goddamn dirty Algerian faggot son of a gypsy whore with widespread legs waiting for an Arab terrorists riding a rotten camel. And by the way vafan-culo-testadicazzo-figliodiputtana." But again the match would have finished by the time Materazzi would have said this.

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