World Cup thread (Page 22 of 27)

Congrats to the deserved winner of the WC.

Haha good pics! Spain deserves the World Cup, but both teams played a lousy game...
Now we all can watch movies again which is much more fun! (Or K1, for obvious reasons...)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zuysXDTTzE[/youtube]

It wasn't a nice game to watch yesterday but I think Spain was the better team.

Holland v Portugal in 2006 was way better IMO

lets not forget villa's slap that FIFA decided to let go and the play acting against Portugal that had costa sent off

and the constant harrasing of the referee to show cards (which is meant to be a booking in itself)

congrats to spain they deserved it, but damn they had a lot of help from the refs.

oh wow that was well hard game yesterday

anyway congrats to spain,  no lets all go back to normal

I miss the World Cup.

O.k. let me rephrase that: "Holland didn't score and Spain did." Just a very basic observation but it really made the difference. Spain plays the ball around a lot (which they do very well) but don't score very easily. Of this "weakness" Holland could and should (but didn't) have taken advantage. Easier said than done though... Holland didn't have a lot (two big ones indeed!) of chances and were (especially) in the first half to busy with breaking Spain's game (or even bones...).

Spain just was out of Holland's league (maatje te groot dus).

De Jong must have received a red cart, as well as that Spanish player who pushed Van Bommel (ref didn't saw it). Because it still is football, not boxing. But for all the rest I think the ref has to be a little more comprehensive. I mean, you have 22 guys being completely fucked up by the adrenaline on a field during a World Cup final (we can't even imagine), so I don't get all those yellow carts, 13 in total!!! Let them play a little bit like guys, don't try to make ballerinas of them...  50% of the carts were not even correct, and yes Holland took them nearly all. Such things can clearly change a game.

Is it a reason Spain don't deserve to win? I don't think so, the football itself was pretty equal during the first 90 minutes. But the extra time was clearly for Spain, and so they finished it at the end.

Still a little disappointed that Holland couldn't finish it here, but they can be proud to end second of a World Cup.

both teams played equally good for the whole time , but lets not forget that the goal came after a holland freekick that was soo obviously a corner a teen referee would have seen it, plus there was an offside before the final pass to iniesta. De Jong should have gotten red that's true, but for the rest what decided to game was that one goal after two wrong decisions. The second yellow card was also more of a friendly shoulder clap, opposed to the obvious foul of robben during his second big chance.

ok then, when's the Intertoto starting?