Summary
THE vuvuzelas gave South Africa 2010 its soundtrack, the Jabulani ball provided endless controversy and world champions Spain supplied the quality. Shame about the final. In years to come Holland manager Bert van Marwijk will doubtless rue his decision to send out his side to try cynically to kick Spain out of their imperious stride, culminating in a match with 14 yellow cards and a red for Dutch defender John Heitinga.
If we did not know before, we did then. It was not a vintage World Cup.See the full content of this document
Extract
No Epic but a Beautiful Ending
It did not have the Brazilian brilliance of 1970, the Argentine mastery of 1986, nor the host nation dominance of France 1998.
Nor was it a bad World Cup. It was not the flat affair which English critics have argued, mostly on...See the full content of this document
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