Matrix Out?, Or: More Azzurri Panic

The press in Italy is currently exploding with stories about the health of Marco Materazzi, and they get worse with each passing hour. At first, he had simply "suffered a thigh problem and was replaced." It quickly got more serious, though, with stories of a deep bruise and "trauma" (physical, apparently, though it's strangely entertaining to imagine Matrix weeping over his lost childhood, or something) that left him vomiting on the sideline.

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