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So that’s all right then

By Steven | November 5, 2008

The Daily Mail has just joined the Sun and the Daily Star in apologising to (and paying defamation damages to) Italian footballer Marco Materazzi for falsely accusing him of racially abusing Zinedine Zidane, triggering the famous headbutt in the 2006 World Cup final. The paper reported that he called Zidane “the son of a terrorist whore”.

In fact, in response to Zidane’s taunt that Materazzi could have his shirt after the game, Materazzi had merely said: “I’d rather have your whore of a sister.”

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