Wrath – Zinedine Zidane
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While Pepe, Diego Costa, Roy Keane, Kevin Muscat, Vinnie Jones (I could go on here, couldn't I?) exemplify the sin of wrath – there is something to be said about Zinedine Zidane.
The great Frenchman cloaked it under a veneer of aloof-ness that was almost angelic, and a footballing ability that was greater than anyone else playing the game at the time.'
But every now and then, his inner anger would rise in a most vicious manner. Thuggish and brutal at times, Zidane's anger often surfaced when least expected.
The most famous is of course when Marco Materazzi's constant badgering got under the Marseillaise's skin and out came the headbutt – a moment of pure wrath that cost France the World Cup. But he has history – he missed most of World Cup '98 after an ugly stamp in the match against Saudi Arabia and he has been sent off before for a headbutt too – and that in the Champions League!
Underneath all that brilliance, there was a bubbling well of pure fury that gets the ethereal genius the tag for Wrath
