Terrifying ‘Zidane’ Float At 128th Nice Carnival Will Haunt Your Slumber For Eternity (Photos)

Chris Wright

20th, February 2012

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By Chris Wright

It was the 128th Nice Carnival this weekend (like you need telling!) and this year’s theme was ‘King of Sport’, which featured as it’s centrepiece a vast float which rumbled through the city at night, depicting – amongst others;  Barack Obama, The Pope, the Dalai Lama and, towering over them all, an intensely evil-looking, up-lit effigy of Zinedine Zidane – complete with a World Cup in hand and a huge red lump on his forehead, presumably as a result of boshing Marco Materazzi with it…

Grotesque, and hardly the most flattering rendition of Zizou’s icy-cold, widows-peaked glare that’s ever been committed to papier mache. There’s obviously a lot of work gone into it, but could they not have made their ‘King of Sport’ a little less nightmare-inducing? Harrowing.

As for the Obama/Pope/Dalai Lama, etc reference –  if anyone has even the slightest understanding of what’s going on there, we’d be greatly oblidged if you’d share.

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  1. Harry Catknapp says:

    Hideously grotesque,is that pope Arsene?

  2. Patrick says:

    No sense at all. It just looks like a giant pimple… ugh.

  3. Marvin says:

    Pope – leader of religion
    Obama – leader of the “free world”
    Dalai Lama – leader of the spiritual world

    roi du monde sportif – king (leader) of the sports world
    (notably. to the French Zidane is bigger than all of them)

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