Despite repeated calls from an English public desperate to rid the country of Emile Heskey, Mr Charisma Alan Shearer has always stuck to his guns and refused to backtrack on his international retirement. With the emergence of Wayne Rooney and Jermaine Defoe such calls have died away, but at least Al never came crawling back to the England arena in search of some last gasp-glory. Well Zinedine Zidane (as well as Claude Makelele and Lilian Thuram) has now decided to do just that, and, instead of admitting he was wrong in the first place, world football's most expensive man has come up with a novel reason as to why he is now ready to come back in time for the World Cup.
The sensational Zizou explained away his u-turn by remarkably describing how a mysterious late night visitor convinced him to return to Raymond Domenech's squad. "I would not want people to talk too much about it in case what I have to unveil gets badly interpreted, but what is happening to me is quite mystical and gets out of my control," said Zidane, surrounded by candles as he chanted incantations.
"This is even irrational and that's why I am the only person to be able to truly feel it. One night, at 3am, I suddenly woke up and I then spoke with someone. But no-one knows it. Neither my wife nor anyone else. Until I die I will never tell (who that person was), this is just too crazy. This is someone that you will probably never meet. During the hours that followed I was on my own with that person, at home, and I took the decision to come back. I had never experienced that before, I felt pushed by this force which dictated my behaviour. It was a revelation for me, I had to obey that voice that was advising me."
The sensational Zizou explained away his u-turn by remarkably describing how a mysterious late night visitor convinced him to return to Raymond Domenech's squad. "I would not want people to talk too much about it in case what I have to unveil gets badly interpreted, but what is happening to me is quite mystical and gets out of my control," said Zidane, surrounded by candles as he chanted incantations.
"This is even irrational and that's why I am the only person to be able to truly feel it. One night, at 3am, I suddenly woke up and I then spoke with someone. But no-one knows it. Neither my wife nor anyone else. Until I die I will never tell (who that person was), this is just too crazy. This is someone that you will probably never meet. During the hours that followed I was on my own with that person, at home, and I took the decision to come back. I had never experienced that before, I felt pushed by this force which dictated my behaviour. It was a revelation for me, I had to obey that voice that was advising me."
