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Well Spain deserved to win last night, although I do feel sorry for a good German team (did I just say that?).


Not sure I'll be supporting either in the final, as I'd be happy with either winner. Should be a good final though (hopefully).


Same applies to Rooney.


I am shocked at you Anna!!! ;-)

The octopus is fine in the early round but goes to pieces in the final, the Dutch it is.


I'm not actually as excited by the final as I hoped. Holland I've previously said I'm struggling to warm to as they've got there slightly through luck and by van Bommel's constant cheating... Spain just frustrate me and once they start tippy tappy passing I get bit, well bored.


On balance I want the Dutch to win but I'm actually looking forward to the 3/4th game much more - if they relax and play football that could be a brilliant game.

As someone with no interest in football generally, but who usually manages plenty of temporal world cup enthusiasm, En-ger-land left me cold from the off this time.


It wasn't even anything to do with their football, which was admittedly shite - even to the layman. No, it was already there before the first ball had even been mis-kicked.


After a bit of thought, what I put it down to is that my general feeling is that - more than a few England players.. just aren't very nice people. And I find it hard to root for someone just on the grounds of country/skill/blah alone.


Whether it's kicking the sh1t out of someone for not letting you choose the music, or stuffing your knob into anything that moves just because you can, or just generally being a spoilt arse lazing around by the pool with an assortment of, essentially - prostitutes - next to your twenty-six bedroom new-build mock-chateau.. all these things seem to have had a subconscious effect.


Maybe it's different for real fans innit.

Best place to watch this game? Central Madrid or Barcelona. Or Amsterdam for some solid solemn Germanic style partying. The worst? Wild Bills saloon bar in Banff where I'm sitting with four frustrated Dutch campers, a guy in full cowboy attire and a Spanish Canadian chef. At lunchtime.

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