World Cup Final

[Arsenal8807]

I have my money on Spain, my ancestry homeland (along with Germany, England, Portugal), but I always go for La Furia Roja! I bet my friend a box of Penta's when Spain wins and he wanted Pro V1x's but I will be getting more balls regardless haha..

Place your predictions ladies and gents!

[James_Black]

the octopus said spain.

I like holland though

[mcfc_nick]

Espanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[James_Black]

stupid octopus

[right handed phil mickelson]

  James_Black said:

stupid octopus

Yes. That octopus can go suck my wooden shoes.

[Arsenal8807]

Welp.. looks like a box of Penta's for me!

[drPheta]

To be fair, the Dutch were the whinier of the two teams today. Too many stupid fouls. Too much whining to the refs while the ball was still in play. Too little smart soccer being played. I wanted Netherlands to take this one, but Spain put on real pressure and didn't foul as much.

Not a terribly impressive match today, but the better team did win the game.

[jamo]

I didn't really have a preference in this as far as ancestors go, so I was intending to just watch some awesome soccer. Unfortunately I had to work today. Awesome. Looks like I missed a great game.

On a side note I went to a New England Revolution vs. Los Angeles Galaxy game yesterday. I had been wanting to go to one for a long time (I played a lot of soccer as a kid), and I figured this would be a good time, I could see Landon Donovan and Edson Buddle as they got back from the World Cup. Buddle played, but Donnovan didn't. That was too bad but it was a great game, and the Revs won 2-0. Should have been 3-0, but the refs disallowed an early goal.

[drPheta]

Was that he same ref from the England v. Germany match? I kid, I kid.

[DarkPrince]

  jamo said:

I didn't really have a preference in this as far as ancestors go, so I was intending to just watch some awesome soccer. Unfortunately I had to work today. Awesome. Looks like I missed a great game.

I would argue you didn't miss that great of a game. The dutch fouled like crazy, the spanish flopped semi-like crazy, a helluva lot of yellow cards (almost all deservidly given out), Robben blowing two chances but screaming at the ref for not calling a non-existent foul (subsequently carded for dissent). And Spain scoring with 7 minutes left until PK shootout. All I can say is thank freakin god it did not go to a shootout cuz there's nothing I hate more than the WC final coming down to 100% luck, Spain were the better team, as someone else said, Holland just whined....a lot rather than putting up and scoring 1.

[sean_miller]

Compared to the consolation match today's game was a letdown.

[senorchipotle]

  DarkPrince said:

I would argue you didn't miss that great of a game. The dutch fouled like crazy, the spanish flopped semi-like crazy, a helluva lot of yellow cards (almost all deservidly given out), Robben blowing two chances but screaming at the ref for not calling a non-existent foul (subsequently carded for dissent). And Spain scoring with 7 minutes left until PK shootout. All I can say is thank freakin god it did not go to a shootout cuz there's nothing I hate more than the WC final coming down to 100% luck, Spain were the better team, as someone else said, Holland just whined....a lot rather than putting up and scoring 1.

non-existent foul? puyol was climbing all over him! the spanish were atrocious, they looked like a bunch of didier drogba's out there on the field. no integrity, whatsoever. there were maybe three deserved cards given to the dutch, neither of which heitinger received were warranted.

[James_Black]

  senorchipotle said:

non-existent foul? puyol was climbing all over him! the spanish were atrocious, they looked like a bunch of didier drogba's out there on the field. no integrity, whatsoever. there were maybe three deserved cards given to the dutch, neither of which heitinger received were warranted.

one of the dutch guys kicked a spanish guy in the chest!

and he only got a yellow card!

[Golfwolf]

  right handed phil mickelson said:

Yes. That octopus can go suck my wooden shoes.

Very good!! Way too many blatant fouls in the final game, I wanted the Dutch to win this one but Spain played better, they have the ability to shut down a pretty powerful offensive team. I guess I have to wait another 4 years to see a better outcome.

[Arsenal8807]

Yea, the Spanish we not diving around as much as people think.. It was pretty even but as far as blatant fouls, the DUTCH proved to win that category. I don't know how many times they got away with stupid barbaric fouls.. Like kicking Xabi Alonso in the CHEST!? What is that? Also when Van Bommel took out Ineista with a slide tackle only getting his whole leg behind Ineista... Dutch deserved to lose playing the way they did, they let their emotion get the best of them..

[DavidFehertysBike]

The dutch were the more creative and dynamic team overall, and i was rooting for them to win. Spain was just good enough. One of the ugliest WC matches ive ever watched, though.

[James_Black]

  DavidFehertysBike said:

The dutch were the more creative and dynamic team overall, and i was rooting for them to win. Spain was just good enough. One of the ugliest WC matches ive ever watched, though.

creative?

I thought it was a Gaelic Football match! not soccer!

[nevets88]

I'd like to follow the upcoming English Premiere League season - anyone know it you can watch it via internet streaming in the US? I'm guessing ESPN3 might stream it?