With the World Cup over, the Fantasy Premier League has returned to draw our thoughts towards the new Premiership season. There can’t be many football fans who haven’t tried their hand at the game in the past few seasons, but if you haven’t now is the perfect time to get up and running. Get ready for nine months of stat checking, weekly injury news appraisal and an unhealthy procrastination over make believe transfers.
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As the sun sets in South Africa, this summer’s World Cup has answered many questions about the world’s top footballers whilst raising some about others.
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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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