Well I got it wrong and Spain were worthy winners of the World Cup. All the talk of beautiful football from the Dutch side went out of the window in the final and they went well over the top in their approach. I was really surprised at their hard line tactics and it certainly didn’t pay off.  You would expect that sort of thing from Van Bommel but the others just went overboard.

Arjen Robben will definitely go down as one of the biggest girls of the World Cup, he has been cutting inside and shooting with his left foot all tournament – why couldn’t anyone stop him?

He will be playing those two clear chances over in his head for weeks to come but I can’t believe nobody in the Spanish side clouted him first.  He doesn’t strike me as the sort of player to react well to a hammering – not that it takes a foul to have him writhing around on the floor anyway.

So Holland were my pick for Champions but these are the others stood out for me:

Team of the tournament              New Zealand

Player of tournament                    Bastian Schweinsteiger

Goal of the tournament                Giovanni Von Bronckhurst

Best place I visited                         Durban

Biggest flops                                      England

Best pundit                                        Robbie Savage – just kidding!!

Back to normality now the World Cup is over – not long until the start of the season!