Anyone But England

Only 20?

My support for the Dutch was waning the longer I seen van Bommel stay on the pitch then this happened.

The best team of the World Cup won, well done Spain. Now if handing over the prize was conditional on the World Cup being worthy of it’s name…

Onwards to Brazil. The Draw will be made on 31st July 2011…

Awoke from my Oxegen-induced knackeredness to find the World Cup 35 minutes in and find 5 yellow cards thrown out by the English ref Webb. One should have been a red but not really certain sure about the others. Of course with the absence of England in the final the pundits have been reduced to stubborningly dancing around any ‘the ref is shite’ viewpoints instead.

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3rd place play-off: Germany 3 Uruguay 1

World Cup Final: Netherlands 0 Spain 2

Although I’d much prefer a bit of drama. Desperately hoping the Dutch get wired into them.

Never thought I’d say this but sorry to see the Germans go out last night. Perhaps inevitably through this tournament they finally met a team with greater ability but more importantly were also playing somewhere approaching their full potential. The Spanish went through deservedly and will be favourites to win their first World Cup on Sunday.

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“‘There’s the boy band’ he chortled at the German bench, unarguably the most impressive and tactically astute management duo of the World Cup so far.”

6 More Days of Mark Lawrenson

It’s become a kind of meme now in match commentator-land: Whatever the problem, the solution surely lies in the playing of player x ‘in the hole‘. How has this become such a gloriously simple silver bullet so quickly?

First off it might be wise to identify where on the pitch ‘the hole‘ is. Having scientifically tracked all mentions of playing ‘in the hole‘ (more…)

The Boers have been met temporarily with modern day reinforcements in SA as the Dutch attempt to stake their claim in the World Cup Final.

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