I think the Dutch are some of the nicest people I have met, and I was supporting (in the rather notional way that football non-fans 'support' anything) the Netherlands tonight. But if they had won it would have been a hollow victory. I don't mind physical play - I watch Rugby, after all - but football is supposed to be about skill, not chopping people's feet off. The right team won.
I read a suggestion, I think in The Times letters page a few years ago, that bears repeating. If a game goes to extra time, any player having a yellow card in normal time would be taken off the field and extra time played only with players who had not received a card. That would go for any substitutions of yellow-carded players as well, obviously. By my guess (remember I am not an expert and was drinking throughout the game) that would have meant 30 minutes of extra time with teams of 6 men for the Netherlands and 8 for Spain. That would have been interesting.
Right, that's all I have got to say about football.
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