Despite playing in one of the roughest matches I’ve seen in years, Spain was able to finish with its fourth clean sheet in a row.
The dutch are a good team, but they’re a bunch of foulers.
The two most accountable are Van Bommel and de Jong. Van Bommel seemed to do everything possible to foul – and even worse, to annoy the Spanish players into fouling back. Being half Spanish, every time I saw Van Bommel smile and foul at the same time I just got more and more annoyed. Even if I were not half Spanish, watching the Dutch play would have been enough for me to want them to lose.

And here is the worst foul I have ever seen. Somehow he only got a yellow card. The only explanation is that the ref could only see this from a bad angle.
de Jong’s behaviour is absolutely despicable, and  probably not an accident. Considering de Jong is the same guy who just a few months earlier broke Stuart Holden (a USA football player) in a reckless challenge.
Just look at him in the picture. He’s not looking at the ball at all!
This guy should be banned from football for a very, very long time.

I got back to Provo, UT Saturday night.
It sucked. I spent about 20 hours in a plane.
I know what you’re thinking… it doesn’t take 20 hours to get to Utah from Spain.
well…. it does if you’re a cheap skate.
It was cheaper for me to fly from Spain to Austria, and then to NY, and then UT.
For those of you who know your geography (in other words… those born outside of the USA) you’ll know that Austria is east of Spain, and consequently, in the opposite direction of the way we were to eventually travel. Unfortunately I’m a cheap-skate, so I opted for it anyway. Total time from boarding first plane to landing in SLC…..26 hours.
Wikipedia states that the recovery rate is generally one day per time zone.
that would mean I’ll take 8 days to recover.
Not good, as I start school just 2 days after arriving.
I flew SpanAir to Vienna, Austrian Airlines to NY and Delta to UT.
Can you guess which was the worst ?
Delta was the absolute worst…..and by far!
Not only was the pilot terrible, but we were delayed by over an hour, just waiting in the plane.
We took off 80 mins after boarding.
The worst was that every 10 mins the pilot would announce (over the P.A.) we’re cleared for take-off, so it’ll just be a few more minutes. By the 3rd time I knew not to believe him anymore.

After all the strict checks through countless metal detectors (which, by the way, didn’t pick up on the 4 steel pins holding my thumb together) they were stupid enough to give us metal cutlery to eat with.
Isn’t that ridiculous?
They accuse people of everything under the sun for accidentally having nail clippers in their carry-on, and then give everyone on board a metal knife??