Monty Python insults, and Camoranesi's haircut!

[curiouswombat]

Well that was a very good game - which finals sometimes aren't. What on Earth was Zidane doing? Surely with all his experience he should have kept his cool no matter what - and Materazzi didn't appear facially to have been that vicious in his comment - Daughter-dear reckoned the worse possible insult must have been 'Your mother is a hamster, and your father smells of elderflowers, you cheese-eating surrender monkey.' And even that Python/Bush insult should not have been enough for a reaction like that.

(For USA friends; Zidane is the French captain, playing his last international game, and he inexplicably turned on an Italian player and head-butted him in the middle of his chest. He was sent off.)

But did anyone apart from D-d and I notice what happened to Camoranesi's hair? The commentators were too busy talking about what had happened in the match to see what was happening on camera as the celebrations started. The Italians took a chair out into the middle of the pitch within a minute of the final whistle, sat Camoranesi on it, took a pair of scissors, and cut off his top-knot, with much laughter and cheering. He was carrying the hair around with him, and eventually seemed to have put it into one of the goal-keeper's gloves. When they were all gathered around the trophy he took his cut-off hair and put it on the trophy like a little wig for a minute, before putting it back into the glove again!

We thought it was really great - he must have vowed to have it cut off if they won - and we were fascinated by where Camoranesi's hair was all through the celebrations!

(If you don't know what Camoranesi usually looks like, and you are interested - there is a picture here

Comments

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Oblivious American here; I didn't actually know who won until I read this! Thanks for the information. Kind of interesting!

I looked at the picture of Camoranesi; if he had a bet on the game it looks like it's a good thing Italy won! Seriously goofy hair. I 've known navajo guys who wear it that way, but I wouldn't expect to find them on an italian sports team!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Actually I chose that picture because it showed the hair well - rather than one of him face on, but funnily enough D-d and I have commented before that he doesn't look totally European - facially he looks like a native American as well.

I wonder what his family background is?