12 July 2006, 12:27 AM
barely above? no way! Even if their reputation for diving is justified, that doesn't mean they have poor sportsmanship -- maybe what we should be thinking isn't that zidane should have been able to take the insults after 10+ years of experience, but that materazzi said something really nasty, or hadn't stopped the entire game. That to me spells poor sportsmanship more than the diving that every player in the entire world cup would perform in if they knew it would help their team to the biggest prize in sport.