Oh Zizou how could you???

Glory and victory were within your hands, eternity in the making. But you chose to mis-use that head of yours, instead of plotting and planning a final assault on the weakening Azzurri, to direct it on another man instead of the ball. There can be no excuses made for you, and now there's a blot on your career that can never be erased as you have now retired from club and international playing.

The Azzurri were not the better team, it was a very even match. The only difference that when it came to penalty kicks, they converted all of theirs while the Bleus miskicked two of theirs. The Bleus must now leave for home with empty hands and sickened hearts, of how close they came to glory, but for a instance of madness from their leader, and 2 instances of misaiming from the foot soldiers.

When I've recovered from my disappointment, I'll remember the spectacle of an amazing game, one that saw two equal and matched titans sparring for 120 mins. This was a game that will join the rest of the legendary World Cup matches as one of the greatest ever played. Too bad it will always be linked to the sending off a legend.

Oh, Zizou!

If only you had kept your head......