<p>more confusion. The Italian player’s original taunt questioned the culinary skills of Zidane’s mother, an inflammatory insult in many parts of the world. His reaction was therefore entirely understandable. Reports of her response have likewise become twisted. With her quoted “balls on a platter” she in fact revealed a closely guarded family recipe for the preparation of ram testicles . In this light the head butting incident gains an interesting symbolic significance,…</p>