by Catherine Lear

Created on: July 12, 2010   Last Updated: July 13, 2010

At 10.30 Sunday night on the 11 July 2010, the FIFA World Cup competition saw a new winner of the world cup trophy, a winner that had never won the trophy in all the years that they had been playing soccer. No matter who had won the trophy the competition would see a new name written into the annuals of the game.

Both Spain and Holland had never won this trophy in all the years that they had been playing. Indeed Spain never come close to becoming a finalist. Holland though had reached the finals on at least two occasions in the early seventies with some of the best players that the game of soccer has ever seen.

The game started slowly with Spain doing most of the attacking, Holland’s nerves looked a little shredded every time the Spanish forwards attacked the Dutch goal. Slowly though the Dutch started to stamp there authority on the game in more ways than one. After just fifteen minutes, the English referee Howard Webb had to produce the first of the many yellow cards that he would be producing; Von Persie crudely hacked down Joan Capdevila and Howard Webb had no hesitation in showing the Arsenal player the yellow card.

A few minuets later Von Bommel was the second Dutch player to be shown a yellow card for a tackle that should have seen a red card instead of a Yellow one. By no means were the Dutch the only ones fowling as a few minutes later Ramos went into the book. The scene was set for no give or quarter in this world cup and Webb had his hands full controlling this game.

In the 28th minute, one more Dutch player went into the ref's book for a challenge on Alonso, this time it was for kicking the Liverpool player nastily in the chest and Je Jong was fortunate to be shown only a yellow card for this nasty crude challenge that left Alonso with one broken rib.

Against the run of play Holland nearly scored a goal, on the 34th minute the Dutch had kicked the ball out of play so that a Spanish player who had gone down injured could get treatment, when play resumed the Spanish threw the ball back to the Dutch as is the custom, the Dutch then gave the ball back to the Spanish as is the custom in these situations by kicking the ball slowly back to the Spanish goalkeeper, as the ball hit the grounded just in front of the Goalkeeper it bounced over his head and was going into the goal, the Spanish goalkeeper with his heart in his mouth just managed to tip the ball past the post for a Dutch corner. The Dutch then showed there sportsmanship by taking the corner

• 1
• 2
• Next Page >>