bwin Sportsblog - Football - The final World Cup post

What will be my final World Cup post was meant to be a celebration of a great football match but sadly it was horrible. However I never expected it to be a classic as these types of games rarely are. My under 2.5 goals bet was the only saving grace and so I had good reason to be happy at a stop start game. Howard Webb has taken an awful lot of criticism from some quarters......some justified......some not justified. At the end of the day, he was in a difficult situation and made even more so by the actions of the players, especially the Dutch. The Dutch to their credit largely stifled the Spanish and you have to give credit to their coach for that. If he could have won the World Cup then no one in Holland would have cared. So the coach did what he felt he had to do to get the job done. But that sure wasn't pleasing on the eye and I am so glad that Spain won although Spain have hardly been convincing and many teams are learning how to stifle them and they have won the World Cup with four consecutive 1-0 wins. But Howard Webb was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea because he should rightly have sent off two Dutch players in the first half. But if he had done that then the game would have been ruined as a spectacle and people would have criticised him for ruining the World Cup final. But he definitely was too lenient by not showing red cards sooner and the first red card would have stamped out the rest. Showing one ten minutes from the end of extra time when it hardly mattered was a cop out. But good luck to Spain and they will be worthy World Champions!