Germany
01 Neuer
03 Friedrich
16 Lahm Captain
17 Mertesacker
20 Boateng
06 Khedira
07 Schweinsteiger
08 Ozil
15 Trochowski
10 Podolski
11 Klose
Spain
01 Casillas Captain
03 Pique
05 Puyol
11 Capdevila
15 Sergio Ramos
06 Iniesta
08 Xavi
14 Alonso
16 Busquets
07 Villa
18 Pedrito
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10 Podolski
11 Klos
Wonder what the Polish team would have been like if they had played for them...
Also Cacau from Brazil, Boateng from Ghana and Gomez in their squad.
Clearly where England have been going wrong is to not get in any mercanaries.
The 10 yard mark from the corner is about a yard or two outside the 18 yard box, so very narrow.
4th official telling spanish bench to calm down according to Lawrenson.... acting too excitedly apparently. Forgot this was a polo meeting.
i'm with you on that , of the games i've seen and i haven't seen all of them , there hasn't been a real humdinger of a game .... hopefully the final will provide it
Then having Lawro go on about "I didn't know much about the Boer War and the Battle of Rorke's Drift" is mind numbing. You still don't Mark, they weren't the same f**king thing!
They weren't, Rorke's Drift was 1879 and the Boer war 1899-1902. On edit, how often has the film "Zulu" been on? At least once a year, if he doesn't know by now...
Fair play to the BBC to go beyond the football, but some of the stuff has been cringeworthy, a couple of weeks ago Shearer went into a township and asked someone who lived under Apartheid "how he felt about it". They should have gotten in a historian or someone with a clue about the era rather than a cocooned professional footballer who has spent all his life eating/thinking/drinking football and clearly hasn't a clue that there is a world outside the game.
Spain are the best team in the world right now and I expect them to wrap it up on Sunday so long as they keep Roben and Sneijder quiet.(take those two out of the dutch team and they are ordinary).
Spain have class, not just from 1 - 11 but on the bench too. For football's sake I hope they win.
Agreed, especially about the players coming off the bench. They have players like Fabregas getting splinters in his backside when we have Peter Crouch and Shaun Wright-Philips. Still think that, overall and until tonight, Germany have been the best team at the tournament and they are looking very, very good for two years time.
To be fair you get saddled with Alan Green's shit, but it's better than Lawro
Pedro is the Spanish Lloyd Sam.