FIFA World Cup 2010

[Gil-Estel]

Well with all respect, Uruguay didn't have a single chance. Both goals came out of nothing. The second one was pathetic, you saw it coming from miles away. I will not say that we were the greatest, but if you saw the game I really think we deserved to win...

[lem0nhead]

Ahhh ok, yeah the refs have not been great this tourney. Its not been a good tournament overall i dont think. No great games, only a couple of great goals, standard of free kicks and set pieces dreadful and shocking decisions by the officials.

Plus Fifa is an awful association for running things.

[Cw0rk]

Are there any Spanish members in this board?

[Witchkingx5]

I don't think so, and as I supported Germany until yesterday, I hope the Netherlands will win!

[Yanko Markovic]

GO NETHERLANDS!!

This time it's actually a sanguine sorta bond with the country...

[lem0nhead]

Gees how godamn dirty are the dutch team? I hope they dont win now purely because they deserve 9 men on the pitch. De Jong's karate kick on Alonso was equal to assault and Van Bommel is a disgusting player. No idea how to challenge and is a horrible tackler.

[Gil-Estel]

Well, first of all, congrats for the Spanish players. They deserved to win. Second, I agree with Lemon, that some players should not be on the pitch first half.

Howard Webb was not the best ref... Again, apart from some luck we might have had with Van Bommel and De Jong, Iniesta made a stupid foul that could be awarded with red and where is the rule that when a player is asking for a card, he is the one that gets one? 3/4 times spanish players asked for a card and Howard Webb did nothing...... And the cornerkick he didn't give us, the counterattack was the goal, so that should never have happened. Bah....

Last thing, I am proud we got so far, I am proud the dutch players made a tunnel of honor for the spanish players and again, Spain did deserve this title....

[Olorin]

This what lem0n and Gil said express that what i had to say. Only thing what me really annoys is that De Jong didn't get what he deserved! a dark dark red card in xxxl format banning for 100 games... what a dirty foul! In Austrian TV a ref meant in the pause that in first half there should have been 3 red cards for Netherlands... well, at least 1 would have been very obvious.

But we got a winner who deserved the title, we got a team which was one of maybe only a few who can compete with the spanish team.

@all my dutch friends: I know, nobody will remember the second, but second place is - as gil already said - also a thing of which you can be proud of

[lem0nhead]

This sums it up perfectly for me:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world cup 2010/8812484.stm

"Dutch football legend Johan Cruyff has launched a scathing attack on Netherlands' display in the World Cup final, deriding it as "anti-football"...."Sadly, they played very dirty," Cruyff told Spanish newspaper El Periodico...."This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style... If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they lost."

And this line i feel is how I would put it:

"It hurts me that Holland chose an ugly path to aim for the title."

Ugly is a good choice of terminology as that is how it was too watch.

If one of the greatest dutch players, if not of all time, can say this it seems glaringly obvious how badly Bert van Marwijk got his approach wrong. Shame really. They have an incredibly talented squad. Swapping Elia for De Jong and Van der Vaart for Van Bommel and it would be a great team that could win without negative tactics.

[Witchkingx5]

But still, I'm sad the WC is over...