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In reply to Ole:
Don't agree with most of this but that's OK, haven't got the inclination to refute all your points, doesn't matter much. Football is a very subjective thing and everyone seems to see the same game or individual players differently ("He's great", "No, he's rubbish").
Don't know any top refs personally so I can't ask them (I assume this is what you have done,
) If the top ref you're referring to is Graham Poll, well he's given 3 yellow cards to one player in a match so...
Anyway, France have got their name on the cup so congratulations to them. They are formidable champions and with a fairly young team should only get better. Hopefully for the neutral they will start to play a more expansive brand of football which, with their personnel, they are more than capable of.
BTW, loved the Danish team of the 1986 WC - great jerseys too - which I managed to get a hold of for my brother back in Australia when I was spending time in Aarhus, Sonderborg, HOLSTEBRO & of course Kobenhavn.