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Howard Webb to referee the final - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...10/8802425.stm

"Englishman Howard Webb has been chosen to referee the World Cup final between Netherlands and Spain in Johannesburg on Sunday, Fifa has confirmed.

The 38-year-old Yorkshireman has had a good tournament so far, as have his assistants Michael Mullarkey and Darren Cann, who will join him in the final."

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Good luck to Holland today, it will be a tough match against Spain.

I'll go for a 2 : 1 win for the Dutch in 90 minutes :)

A bit of trivia for you, if Spain win today then New Zealand will be the only unbeaten team of WC2010 :erm:

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Howard Webb now lives near Norwich, according to the local papers.

I want the Netherlands to win. (IIRC Holland is a region in the Netherlands, it would be like saying Essex instead of England)

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'FIFA' are being pratt,

Fifa 'pressures' Mandela to attend World Cup final

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/10589713.stm

How dare they, this 92 year old man has far more respect than everybody at FIFA added together.

He should tell the to **** off, He'll attend if he his able to. Seph Blatter if nothing more than a clone of Bernie in F1.

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True, but very few Dutch people object to calling The Netherlands Holland. In fact, the most popular chant is HUP HOLLAND! :)

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Adrian Chiles asked Edgar Davids about that. Davids said he preferred Holland as it sounded more "edgy" and "modern"

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If Carlsberg Made Action Replays...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsTWjueuLz4 :D

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Yeah, it's informal but people are used to it and know what it means.

COME ON HOLLAND! Van Persie to score the winner :D

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Very sporting of the Dutch to play the ball back to the keeper after he made a hash of the inital pass back. :clap:

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Don't understand why they did that :confused: Was it a passback?

Oh were they trying to give it back after Spain put the ball out?

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Holland tried to give back posession to Spain after they put the ball out for an injury. Holland knocked it back with a standard back pass but Casillas completely fluffed it up and it went out for a corner. So Holland rolled it back again from the corner and Casillas managed to hold on to it this time.

A few teams in a World Cup final would have taken the corner for real, i'm sure.

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Yeh. I thought it was a bad pass from the Dutch so wondered why they gave it back for that.

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I'll tell you what this games needs, more free kicks!

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Holland just can't seem to be bothered. Giving the ball away time, and time, and time again.

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I rest my case, Spain 1-0 Orange Thugs..

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Congratulations to the Spanish. The best team won.

And yes, Holland were cynical. :(

Ah well, fourth time lucky... :bigcry:

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at least they reached the final!

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Shame Howard Webb had such a hard time with the game and got booed when going up to collect his medal. I think he did well to avoid sending players off (like the possible red card when Sneijder kicked the ball away)