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Second goal sweet as candy. Great pace from Rout and classy finish from the Nile.

No, Saylor

We're gonna win the league, like

Three awesome goal scorers!!!

Ta-ver-nee-ey playing again.

Same. Squad numbers far from finalised yet. Hopefully he'll be switching

Funny how little things can kill it. Shame about those shorts

Done that too over the last few weeks. Just randomly blurted out "sing sing Africa"!

If you had a 40 or so game campaign ahead you'd probably be better off picking Xavi. But for WC campaigns or one off matches Zidane, the guy had a knack to turn it on when it mattered most.

Latest World rankings released by FIFA. Not that they aren't stupid but:

Don't really like Puyol but having played over a decade as a centre back and going up for corners... that semi final goal he scored gave me a hard on!

Indeed, very hard to integrate nicely over stripes

Some even better points brought up by TT and Messi. Just some classic Arsenal moaning really.

They weren't carried by Zidane in 98, he even missed 2 and bit games for them after getting sent off. He popped up with the goods in the final but from a personal point he was much better in 06. Still to answer the question I would say Spain 2010.

yeah it's his girlfirend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9WOtUL90xM awwww

Lost a lot of respect for Iniesta over the course of this tournament. Watching Xavi tonight was also very reminiscent of Scott Parker! All in all I was for Spain though, and hope Robben cries himself to sleep.

Well of course, they have a product and ads to sell, they need to convince themselves and the people watching that it was a lot better than what it actually was. Atmosphere was the worst and most annoying ting about this tournament. As said, glad it's now over and we can move to something else.

Decent. Thankfully it picked up after that horrid first week or so. Also ruined by the poor/annoying atmosphere and to be honest I'm glad it's over. Bring on the Prem.

surely you can see the difference? Individual awards are by-products of the events on the pitch.

But then some players had the oppurtunity to play more games in qualifying. Do you suggest like Goals per game ratio or something? Same goes in the actual WC. Some players play more games than others, but not suggesting anything really, just pointing out the absurdity of it.

If they insist on having a tiebreaker (which they shouldn't) for the top goalscorer having goals scored in qualifying would make just as much sense.

... Or they would have a trophy for each player. Are you nuts? Are you? They do that with pretty much every other individual award and in other sports too when there's a tie. And it's the only fair and logical way.

... Or they would have a trophy for each player.

What do you suggest they do? Draw it out of a hat? Just share it.