Podcast: World Cup Final Review

July 11th, 2010 | by: Daryl |

xavi cup Not too long after the World Cup final was over, I sat around a table with two of my Total Football Soccer Show co-hosts to record our reactions. I should preface this podcast by saying that some of it is maybe a bit knee-jerk. Listening back (as I did when editing) I think we’re probably a little harsh on the Netherlands, so please bear in mind that we’re not impartial journalists, just three football fans sitting around and talking after watching the World Cup final.

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http://www.facebook.com/halynaiscoolerthanyou Halyna Svitlynets

I'm an American fan as well, so I have to say my favorite part of the podcast was when you said we could have won… kind of… not really… maybe! I appreciated that a lot. :)

Another thing I wanted to mention was that although you guys talked really in depth about how many fouls Netherlands committed and how the game was played very dirty, you didn't pay as much attention to how dirty Spain played as well. The people I watched the game with were Netherlands fan just like me or neutral, and although Holland made some terrible fouls we also saw a lot of diving by Spain (and got pretty angry). So what I'm trying to say is that I feel like since Spain won the Cup it kind of cancels out their 5 yellow cards for you and instead makes Netherlands' 9 cards that much worse… Anyways, I was pretty sad when Netherlands won but congratulations Spain. :)

Also agree with Daryl that the game was not as exciting as I hoped it would be. I watched the game three crazy football fans and 2 newcomers who randomly showed up and weren't even going to watch the game. We had to explain offsides and yellow cards to them just to show how clueless they were. You could tell they were getting kind of bored and left a few minutes before Spain's goal. They were really confused why it was 0-0 even after 90 mins, since it was the final.

OK, really long comment! Sorry!
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/2JYJB24K7OTUH5LSHAWEPCUO4I Kristin

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Bense235

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http://twitter.com/ishmaeldaro ishmael n. daro

As a fan of the Netherlands, I couldn't agree more with your assessment of their game. They played dirty, ugly, unimaginative football. Even though Spain didn't play as magically as they can either, Netherlands clearly didn't deserve to be crowned world champions after that display.
http://www.worldcupblog.org Daryl

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Bense235

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