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Dutch Disgrace Blights Final Game
 Posted 7/12/2010 5:44:00 AM
Well, the FIFA World Cup finals are over and Paul the psychic octopus got it 100% right. The two-year-old cephalopod who resides at Sea Life in Oberhausen, Germany managed to correctly predict the result of every tournament match-up on which he was asked to ruminate. He certainly beat the pants off the so-called experts!
But, although the tournament was one of the best in terms of quality of football overall, the final was totally ruined by the Dutch, who were determined to kick the skill out of the Spanish.
From the off, the Netherlands' players lunged, kicked and stamped their petulant mark onto the game, instantly losing all the respect they had earned with their exciting and free-flowing football through the group and knock-out stages.
Not only were they thugs, whenever any Spanish player put in a challenge, however fair, the Dutch threw themselves to the floor as if they'd ...
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