Howard Webb must have been looking forward to the final. He probably didn’t expect the match to turn into a frenzied exhibition of thuggery. It was not what we wanted from a World Cup Final. We knew it was going to be Spanish flair versus Dutch defence. But we wanted a clash of contrasting styles; [...]
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