Football lovers watching the Italy-France World Cup final in Berlin on July 9, 2006, were witness to a sad spectacle, when Frenchman Zinedine Zidane forcefully rammed his head on Italian Marco Materazzi’s chest, felling him on the ground. Zidane was promptly red-carded and his football career came to a sour end. The match went to penalty shoot-out with scores level 1-1 after extra time. It appeared that Gods meted out a punishment to France for Zidane’s sordid act and Italy emerged the winner. Fans coming out of football stadium that night, talked more of Zidane’s head-butt than the newly crowned World Cup champions.