Quote Originally Posted by Buffs Mad View Post
You're very selective in what you remember It's not long ago that Spain were the international side that never won anything on the world stage, that failed to reach their potential, that only performed in Europe.....they were always considered the dark horse because although they had a good side they lost the crunch games - similar to the Netherlands.

I don't think Netherlands will win it but there's a greater maturity about the Dutch side now.
Well yea, but the Netherlands had always a great team, but as u might remember like 2008,winings in the group stage are not as important as later on, the dutch usually overpower themselves always way before its getting serious, and its funny, this year they have besides 3 or 4 player a no name team, none of the defender is known at all, maybe that's s recipe to go more forward cause less teams know about ur resources. And well spain have had good teams too before but eversince the golden generation is in charge they win everything 8-10-12) other teams with their golden generation like england, Portugal (2004) Netherlands (1198-2006) don't reach top, and the difference between good and legend is a title! Spain lost yesterday, but they beat the dutch in the last final, that counts more, cause it lasts forever...