"And regrettably, sadly, they played very dirty. So much so that they should have been down to nine immediately, then they made two [such] ugly and hard tackles that even I felt the damage.(Johan Cruyff)
"It hurts me that I was wrong in my disagreement that instead Holland chose an ugly path to aim for the title.
"This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style, yes it served the Dutch to unsettle Spain. If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they ended up losing. They were playing anti-football."
Monday, July 12, 2010
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I couldn't watch it as i was on at an unChristian hour,4AM.But I saw highlights of very ugly tackles. What do you think? Did Spain deserve to win?
They certainly deserved to beat the Dutch, the alternative would have been a travesty. The Spaniards played with skill and occasional flashes of brilliance, but they didn't set the tournament alight. A lot of people expected Germany to win, I thought Argentina, but all fell by the wayside. Spain went into the competition as champions of Europe which must have given them a psychological edge.
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