Deafened by the vuvuzela and with sofa sores on my behind, I sit remote control in hand decidedly underwhelmed. Don’t get me wrong; to me it is still the beautiful game. It has just started to sport a few wrinkles.
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Whilst everybody basks in the warm afterglow of the World Cup, it’s perhaps important to put a bit of perspective on things and not paper over the cracks of some of the less positive aspects from the tournament. For example, the need for video technology has been particularly well documented, particularly in this country, following Frank Lampard’s ‘goal’ against Germany. However, equally pressing for the game’s governing bodies to address should be ‘player simulation’, or in other words, diving.
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The World Cup is over for another four years and football fans are now left with just the scraps of transfer gossip and pre-season friendlies to feed off until competitive football once again resumes in a month’s time. As the players and fans head home from South Africa and as millions around the world try to work out what to do with their evenings in the absence of live football, here are The Football Blog’s highs and lows of the 2010 World Cup.
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Spain lived up to their billing as pre-tournament favourites by lifting the World Cup last night, but only after negotiating a game in which Howard Webb was forced to brandish fourteen yellow cards and one red. In the end, as with all their knock out games in this tournament, a single goal was all that was required to separate them from a Dutch side who were guilty of some brutal play as well as some missed opportunities.
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It probably won’t have escaped your attention that there is a World Cup final on this weekend. Everybody has been clamouring to have their say, with perhaps the most sought after opinion bizarrely being that of Paul the octopus. He has gone for Spain, but as we enter the final furlong of the tournament and therefore our prediction competition, what have the players of SportGuru predicted will happen on Sunday?
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