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From: Bob on 13 Jul 2010 03:01
That's the status of a newsgroup that can't celebrate a WC win by the most
tactically offensive national squad of the last eon.

Instead, we hear about how the Spanish squad is "defensive", "a bunch of
divers" LOL


From: Abubakr on 13 Jul 2010 03:11
On Jul 13, 5:01 pm, "Bob" <B...(a)Bob.com> wrote:
> That's the status of a newsgroup that can't celebrate a WC win by the most
> tactically offensive national squad of the last eon.
>
> Instead, we hear about how the Spanish squad is "defensive", "a bunch of
> divers" LOL

I agree. They won it trying to take the initiative and win in every
match, had balance in attack and defence and did it with a minimum of
foul tactics. They are fully deserved world champions.

As to the criticisms, on both counts they are in the lowest ranks of
worst of offenders at the tournament.
From: FF on 13 Jul 2010 03:36
Bob wrote:
> That's the status of a newsgroup that can't celebrate a WC win by the most
> tactically offensive national squad of the last eon.
>
> Instead, we hear about how the Spanish squad is "defensive", "a bunch of
> divers" LOL

Agree and disagree.
Agree that it was a deserved win of an offensive team with a
reasonably clean game, cleaner than its opponents anyway which is
about the most you can reasonably demand to a team.
Disagree about the "dysfunctional group" part, you're generalizing.
It's just a bunch of sore losers who can't swallow it that this year's
champ is light-years above the last one, so they try to put forward
the idea that, you know, they're all the same, nobody is better, or
even Spain is much worse than Italy ever was, which is as lame as it
can get.
It's really too bad that they missed so much, especially in the semi
and the final, they should have won them by much clearer margins. Par
of which happened because of the bad form / incomplete fitness of
Torres. It lends some support to the "defensive" theory.
From: Bruce D. Scott on 13 Jul 2010 05:40
Bob (Bob(a)Bob.com) wrote:
: That's the status of a newsgroup that can't celebrate a WC win by the most
: tactically offensive national squad of the last eon.

: Instead, we hear about how the Spanish squad is "defensive", "a bunch of
: divers" LOL

In other words anything you disagree with is "dysfunctional"

Get a life, Bob.

--
ciao,
Bruce

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From: Mike Babyak on 13 Jul 2010 06:27
Bob wrote:
> That's the status of a newsgroup that can't celebrate a WC win by the most
> tactically offensive national squad of the last eon.
>
> Instead, we hear about how the Spanish squad is "defensive", "a bunch of
> divers" LOL
>
>


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