bro, aint that the italians?

gee, just wondering........try digesting this

imagine you are vicente del bosque (some job but the moustache, no), and you know at least 1 of the dutch will kick your arse about in the game (a certain dirty scum by the name of van bommel), what do you do? tell your players to kick him back? take it up their arse?

to me, i think this another side of tactics. you play hard with them, you end up risking your own players sent off. this is the world cup final, everything is at stake. what the spaniards did was complain, and again, enforce the complains with some play acting to stop the dutch tactics of kicking. scum though van bommel is, it is still the way they play it. they wanna win it too, be it dirty or ugly. i hate that tactic, but still, it's a tactic nonetheless. they cannot match the spaniards' passing/possession game. contrary to how people may see the final, i though it was great. the dutch employed their tactics of kicking the spaniards well and the spanish team passed and psychoed well. i am a spain supporter, so naturally, i am happy spain won it.

about the penalties or the send offs that should or should not have been, that's why you guys love football dont you? it is because of the imperfections. the what might have beens, well, you can dwell on it but dont get too worked up on it will you? ozil's supposed penalty that should have been, 50-50 like some said. bear in mind the ref had only 1 chance to look at it. part of the game. there was contact, quite a strong claim. it could have been given.

robben's case on puyol. well, puyol really did some really poor piece of wrestling, but robben took advantage of puyol's fall but couldnt beat casillas. i thought if robben had fallen instead of staying on his feet, puyol could have been taking an early bath. i thought there was one thing on webb's mind, that is, he really understands that it is a world cup final. would anyone want it marred with sending offs? he could easily have sent off de jong for that potentially murderous kick on xabi alonso. in the end, there were just so many that he could take, hence the johnny red, perhaps. but van bommel really should be the one walking.

the dutch supporters will say to the spanish supporters that they should live with the tackles, they're part of the game. the spanish supporters will say to the dutch supporter that they should also take the play acting up the butty, part of the game.