Its hard to play beautiful football when the opposition puts 10 men behind the ball for 85 minutes of the game, hoping to counter for the other 5 minutes. Thierry Henry said the same thing about France not being able to play against Greece in the Euro's in 2004, and this was a very talented French team. In spite of the negative opposition tactics, Spain did play some unbelievable football, controlled every match they played and ultimately became World Champions. What's not beautiful about that?

Spain played to win the tournament and they did, how could you say boring football when one side totally dominates the other without dirty tacticts, they were miles ahead of the opposition on ability and tactics, made the Germans look like school boys team, same German side that made Argentina, England and Australia look like part time sides.

Holland was helpless in the first 15 min of the finals than they changed the tactics to Italys 80 style kicking them of the park and almost won only for Roben to miss twice. To Spains credit they managed to win without a world class strikers, Torres had knee surgery before this WC.
Barcelona V Inter in Chanpions League final played like Spain but Inter with right counter attack tacticas and Melitos two goals won, something that Germany without Muller and Holland with Roben could not do.

Total football deffinetly not, best 2010 WC football yes

No I'm not Spanish or South American

Watching that clip of Holland v Uruguay from 1974 was fantastic, I hadn't seen it before. Bloody brilliant.

Glad to see this is still going round in circles...

Spain played to win the tournament and they did, how could you say boring football when one side totally dominates the other without dirty tacticts, they were miles ahead of the opposition on ability and tactics, made the Germans look like school boys team, same German side that made Argentina, England and Australia look like part time sides.

Holland was helpless in the first 15 min of the finals than they changed the tactics to Italys 80 style kicking them of the park and almost won only for Roben to miss twice. To Spains credit they managed to win without a world class strikers, Torres had knee surgery before this WC.
Barcelona V Inter in Chanpions League final played like Spain but Inter with right counter attack tacticas and Melitos two goals won, something that Germany without Muller and Holland with Roben could not do.

Total football deffinetly not, best 2010 WC football yes

No I'm not Spanish or South American