Menaissance
” I am a man first and foremost”, Zinzdine Zidane told French television on Wednesday, in an effort to explain how his head managed to make contact with an Italian footballer’s chest in the closing minutes of the World Cup final. Coupled with David Beckham’s lame exit from the tournament, the rise of anti-hero Zidane will surely be hailed as a departure in our attitudes to malehood. Preening, sarong-sporting metrosexuality is so over, the style gurus will say; long live the hard man.
guardian.co.uk