Commodification of headbutt continues …

It started early, and AFP reports that it’s not over:

After the French hit song, the jokes, videos games and adverts, there is now a new face to the most infamous headbutt of all time.

Italian defender Marco Materazzi is to publish a book containing 249 phrases he might have said to France captain Zinedine Zidane to invoke the now-retired midfielder’s wrath.

The book is called “What I really said to Zidane,” and Materazzi has been writing about it in a column on Italian sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport’s website.