Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane's stitching and tailoring bill could be rivalling his club's wage bill if the past two matches are any indication. 

For the second game in a row the Frenchman who made his name as an artistic playmaker the likes of which the football world has rarely seen, has torn shreds off his trousers, literally, as the emotion of Europe's greatest club football competition overcame him. 

Zidane's hipster-tight strides first came to the world's attention in the second leg of the quarter-final tie between Real Madrid and Wolfsburg. With Zidane's boys up 3-0 and 3-2 on aggregate, but desperate to avoid conceding an 'away' goal, Karem Benzema had a chance to put the match beyond doubt, but his shot was parried away. 

As Zidane threw himself around in frustration, the stitching in his duds came apart in equal parts dramatic and comedic circumstances:

Madrid prevailed in a tense one, but Zidane's pants weren't so lucky. 

Then, to the internet's amusement, just two weeks later it happened again. 

With the first leg of Madrid's listless semi-final tie against Manchester City threatening to go beyond the allocated 90 minutes and into stoppage time, Zidane took matters into his hands, imploring his team to lift with a series of exaggerated gestures that only served to lift the fabric from the seems of his slacks.

Zidane cuts a lithe figure on the sidelines and no doubt has the skills in his locker to displace one of his own players from the Madrid starting line-up, but one thing is clear, he needs a bigger pair of daks, lest his sideline gesticulations start distracting from the main event. 

That said, with what his side dished up against City this morning, maybe that's not such a bad thing.