I didn't watch the game, but I saw the foul (over and over). At first I thought it was really horrible and petty (and it truly was), but I heard a bit on GMA this morning that put a different spin on it.

They had a lip reader read what the Italian said to him....in a nutshell, if you believe that the lip reader is accurate, he told him that he hoped his whole family died a horrible death!!!! To add to that, the French player's mom is very sick at the moment.

Again, who knows if this is really true, but it does give a bit of a different perspective to the situation. It still wouldn't excuse his actions...he should have waited until the game was finished to say something back....