Argh, again with the ref! Know it sounds dumb, but its just part of football. Overall I thought he got the balance right. Some cards got given for fair challenges, and some terrible challenges were overlooked. Still think the balance was right overall. They deservedly lost a player, their nasty challenges caught up with them and spain started acting up on it more in the 2nd half. So really the dutch got caught out by their own nastniess. If they benefitted from leniency in the first half, they suffered in the 2nd. And the right team won.

I really wanted spain to win, which made it a great game to watch from the tension point of view. But if I couldn't have cared either way, would have been a miserable way to finish a world cup thats had some really dramatic moments.

Vamos España. Alaba al pulpo.