Wednesday, 6 September 2006
France destroys Italy
Some of the bad taste left in my mouth from the World Cup final has gone away, as in tonight's rematch les bleus 0wn3d Italy 3-1.
Better that would have been the score when it counted, of course, but this at least shows what we all felt after the final, that France were the better team even if they couldn't get the regular time goals to prove it. It wouldn't have been such a disappointment to lose if Italy had outplayed us; everybody would've just said 'well, we never expected to make it that far' and that would've been that. But to see Italy take home the cup when we'd played the better match was hard to swallow, especially since chances like that don't come along that often. (And Zidane's red card only made it all worse.)
So while tonights victory hardly makes up for France's loss, I hope it will at least serve to put an asterisk on Italy's win; that's justice enough for me.
