!@#$%!, when you're done patronizing me, remember, I am an Angelino, and we tore up all our baseball diamonds and turned them into futbol pitches yo!!
I follow carefully the World Cup, the Americas Cup, I admit, I don't really like the Euro, but I am not exactly as woefully ignorant of the ins and outs of futbol like you may suspect, even if I am more adept at basketball. That being said, is stand by my initial suspicions, I have watched PLENTY matches with Portugal, and plenty of matches with Spain, and even one or two of them playing each other, and I say, this was a dive. Spain played meh, without their usual force, and Portugal equally was meh, albeit their defense was playing a bit bitter, but I can't really say what was more impacting, Spain not really showing up on offense or Portugal only showing up on defense, but either way, I think Portugal could have played better, and *gasp* even have beat them
by the way, you know I am already an ESPN3 junkie, but again, I think your patronizing tone was more innocent than condescending, so I won't take it personal..
also, I am only half-serious, half-trolling. Was the match necessarily fixed? Who knows? Really, who the fuck cares? Those assholes don't pay any of my bills, so I could care less how they pay theirs. However, I think it was obvious that both Spain and Portugal played lethargic, half-assed, urgency lacking futbol. Whether it was a dive or not then is irrelevant to the fact that I don't think either of those teams really showed up. I think the entire Semis were the same. Perhaps it was exhaustion then? Maybe teams played a bit too hard in the group matches and ran out of gas a bit down the stretch, either way, I was disappointed with the Semis, and also with the final.