In the sequence "New Millennium Journal" in "The Healing Next Time" (Nine Arches 2018), Roy McFarlane twice figures Zinedine Zidane as Achilles, first in "2002: What we do when things fall apart" as "Achilles gloriously designed, unperturbed, untouchable" when Real Madrid played Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League Final, a player "carrying the duality of the colonised and the colonialist", and then in "2006: New wine in broken vessels" as "Achilles exposed" with France against Italy in the World Cup Final, "provoked by his nemesis" to the headbutt that earned him a red card and expressed an "anger" and "rage" familiar to McFarlane: "We Black knew the point of no return." (Andrew Shields, #111words, 2 September 2021)
| Zidane scoring what McFarlane calls "the greatest goal ever" in the 2002 CL Final |
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