This was the exact opposite of the Germany VS Spain game. Holland knows that the Spanish like to play possession football so they used rough-arm tactics THROUGHOUT THE EFFING GAME but Spain had the bulk of the ball possession anyway. The ref was a world class wanker, I hope for his sake he is colour blind or something because he pulled out a yellow when it should have been a red after that crazy kung fu challenge against Alonso. That defender (if you could call him that) was nowhere near the ball and the son of a bitch kept exchanging words with Alonso even after he got up.
Even during half time, the commentators were holding back as much as they could to not directly call the ref a pussy who was making the wrong calls. I cheered for every single foul/card/dive Spain managed against these bullies and their "total football". Spain won the FIFA Fair Play award for just 8 yellow cards throughout the tournament (FIVE of which were in this final alone).This is a direct quote from Holland coach Bert van Marwijk taken from this article by The Telegraph:"It’s a World Cup final, and there’s a lot of emotion out there. You saw that with both teams. I’d loved to have won that match, even with not so beautiful football.”I don't care if you don't play beautiful football but downright ugly football? Seriously? We went to watch the match at Grand Al Mariah on their big screen and were surprised to find that the Spanish ambassador (full delegation + other Sheikhs) was there to watch the match too. I was wearing my Barcelona jersey so I got the biggest smiles from them (like this :DD ) when we walked past them to our seats. I'm glad that this match this didn't go to penalties. There were a lot of chances for both sides but this one made the difference:Torres > Fabregas > INIESTAAAAA!! I also nominate Casillas for President of Everything.
After the match, I shook the ambassador's hand and got a big hug in return :) congratulated her in my broken Spanish, she said something back but I couldn't really understand 'cos she was screaming and crying at the same time. She did say that she wished she was in Madrid right then. This was a good tournament, I am extremely happy for the Spanish team and here's to more awesome football in the future.