Thank God it's over. There's a couple of things that this WC will be remembered for and they illustrate the deterioration of the sport as such.
It's not football any more, it's a pop concert with a couple of guys chasing a ball round the pitch. It all started in Mexico 1986, a World Cup where a dirty cheater (Maradona) became a hero and where "La Ola" was invented. La Ola is a family friendly way of celebrating whatever, just the right thing for multicultural hippie-arseholes that crowd the stadiums nowadays. Disgusting. Football doesn't really matter that much any more, it's the "event", the correct and efficient placing of ads, and love, peace, and harmony bullshit from so-called "fans" who don't know shit about football.
The quality of the majority of matches was really bad.
Zidane, IF you headbutt someone, THEN you have to hit him on the bridge of the nose. This way, at least both men would have been off. This was bad amateur headbutting - you should probably practice this in the banlieus of Marseille again.
But most striking of all, this World Cup confirmed a trend that was already visible in the Euro 2004: It's more and more often the coaches failures that cost the game. Yesterday's final is a fine example. Italy was obviously finished - but that fucking loser Domenech refused to bring on Trezeguet or Wiltord until very late in the game. And France lost the penalty shoot-out. (Compare this to the Euro 2000 final: France brings on Wiltord, Trezeguet, and Pires and finishes off Italy in extra-time.) Take Klinsmann's failure in the semi-final: he failed to bring on a fresh defender when Lippi introduced three fresh strikers to the game. Take Scolari's refusal to back up the lone Pauleta with a second striker. Take Eriksson's failure to nominate another decent striker. Take Parreira's failure to not field the young guns Robinho, Cicinho etc. Take Pekerman's failure to leave Messi and Saviola on the bench and bring on Julio "lame duck" Cruz instead. And so on. It's really astonishing that such highly paid people still make so many stupid mistakes. And we haven't even mentioned van Basten's errors yet.
But, to sum it all up, football's dead to me. With the advent of the T-Com Bundesliga it's all going down the drain and I'm really curious whether next season will be able to grip with the same passion and fervour that previous seasons did. I'm doubtful. Of course, my love to Werder will never die - but I cannot picture myself watching those play-station bred youngsters with tons of ads plastered on their body carefully trying not to ruin their haircut on the pitch. And that's what football's turned into: a couple of pussys posing for sponsors while pretending to play football.
I think that unless someone clones Toy Keane I might just switch to Rugby.