Friday 30 June 2006

"But I felt for the Spanish, for their dedication to playing it the right way, for their innocent and momentary belief in themselves, and for their polite and quiet resignation at the end"

Phil Ball, my favourite soccer journalist

2 comments:

flygirl said...

loads of talent, but inexperience at the end, i guess.

Mahesh said...

ye thats what everyone says, true to a large extent. but reporters have generally missed the emotional repercussions of this game in spain. phil ball, who has spent 26 years in spain, wrote a wonderful article about the reaction in spain to their teams performance on soccernet from which i've stolen this particular quote.