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Spain have never really had to stand up to be counted as most of the time they were better than the opposition, they didn't need a hard hitter back then though i put Puyol in that bracket, plus senna back when they won the first European championship, when the chips are down now and they are evened out among the top 6/8 teams having a man that can hold his own and try to win the midfield battle is essential, Having  a goalkeeper would help too,

hard to like? i always liked them from the Van Basten Gullit era, helped that my main team was AC Milan and the main man there and my favourite player was Van basten

This Spain team been on the slide since brazil thrashed them a year ago, they not win it, the problem with Spain is they have alot of skillful footballers but no hard hitters like Nadal or a player like Roy Keane, when the shit hits the fan they lie down all too easy,

A fit Van Persie some difference from the unfit one in the final 4 yrs ago

We have a contender!!!

The end happens all teams, but its sad to see a great spain team get destroyed

that was a strange year when colman got the road, my own club maybe didn't even vote as they were junior at the time and automatically presumed he be back in, this happened with a few other of the smaller clubs too, the county board was dominated by men from senior clubs, i would have said most of the junior and intermediate clubs were with Colman but many probably didn't even realise what would have happened. We were not far from Ballymaguiagan and most clubs in that area were not happy with it.

That county board back then didn't like Colman getting all the praise, especially as a previous mentioned county board member hit Henry downey down in meath at a challenge game i was at, before the semi against Dublin. The fact that a very good team was flushed down the down didn't worry some of those on the board.

Mighty goal from Van the man, this dutch team looks better than 4 yrs ago, though abit dodgy at the back

went to many leinster finals and semi from 1992 - 97, damn train got to dear to attend regularly, back then Dublin, kildare and meath games were a def in the calendar year

Dont matter - the dubs must have done something to you in a past life to be that bitter against them

whos the flea again?

Its a monsoon in Brazil lads by the look of it, England love this weather, Cameroon well am sure they haven't seen amount of rain in along time back home,

its sore on croatia but Brazil look the better team , though u still have to score fairly to win to be honest

Rumour has it Sean Cavanagh has just been spotted in Brazil!!!

No penalty that was a pure dive

the sound for the opening ceremony is terrible there, waste of time bringing jenny from the block

one pet dislike of the whole cup before it starts, i remember back round running round in a pair of red boots playing fullback in my heyday back when we all sensible wore black, had to stand out somehow lol, anyway i went through the 442 magazine world cup preview, out of all the teams previewed with team photos, maybe 20+ teams, not 1 player was actually wearing the old style black boots, we practically got ever colour under the sun all quite loud colours, none co-ordianted with team mates or team colours, its actually quite off putting, time to go retro and bring back the good old standard version, all these boot deals a curse!1