Spain v Holland world cup 2010 final - Some reactions...

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Let´s face it folks, the game it´self was a disgrace. The Dutch team seemed intent on kicking the Spaniards rather than kicking the ball. The referee, a gallant Englishman called Howard Webb, brandished 14 yellow cards and 1 red card in a game that was branded "tempestuous and ugly" and was anything but a showcase for world football. Did you watch the game in Nerja? send me your photos and I´ll add them here.

Howard Webb: Did very well to control a savage game.

This shocker even had the great Dutch player Johan Cruyff write in column:

"Regrettably, sadly, they played very dirty. So much so that they should have been down to nine immediately, they made two ugly and hard tackles that even I felt the damage," he wrote in his column in El Periodico de Catalunya.

"This ugly, vulgar, hard, hardly eye-catching, lack of football style served the Dutch to unsettle Spain. If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they ended up losing.
"Some practiced anti-football considering that it was the only way to survive. It finished 0-0 [after 90 minutes] because they [Spain] could not play as they wanted."
 
Cruyff also criticised the referee for not sending off two Dutch players in the first half, saying that, who wants to see 9 players versus 11 players for most of the game. Some referees just can´t win.
Oh well, the world cup may be over but at least there is always another week in Nerja to look forward to?

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