FINAL SCORE: Spain, 1-0.

LIVESLOG HIGHLIGHTS:

11:07, Sean Nelson, Emeritus: Winner gets the host country’s coffee and diamond rights for the next 100 years.

11:44, Fnarf: The Dutch make excellent ovens, too, I hear.

11:44 Fnarf: I’m working on the perfect vuvuzela joke but it’s not quite ready yet.

11:46, Sean Nelson, Emeritus: The answer, my friend, is blowing in the vuvuzela

11:52, JenV: What do you call an Englishman in the World Cup Final? The referee.

12:16, Fnarf: The announcer just developed a Scottish accent during the excitement.

1:02, Sean Nelson, Emeritus: Spain wins the award for tiniest players

1:12, Jonathan Golob: Someone at Summit Pub house has a vuvuzela. Most entertaining thing thus far.

1:19 Sean Nelson, Emeritus: The Stranger will buy a shot of Goldschlager for whoever scores a goal in this match.

[After 90 minutes, still no score. We’re going into extra time.]

[At the 109th minute, Netherlands gets a red card on a bullshit call.]

1:55, Sean Nelson, Emeritus: SPAIN SPAIN SPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAINSPAIN SPAIN

[Andrés Iniesta scores for Spain. Score is 1-0. Wesley Sneijder will be inconsolable tonight. I can’t wait!]

1:59, Fnarf: Iniesta is the ugliest player in football, but that was a great moment. He looks like an uncooked loaf of bread.

[Whistle blows. Spain wins the World Cup for the first time in history.]

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...

12 replies on “World Cup Final! Spain vs. The Netherlands!”

  1. Thanks for liveslogging most of the best parts this go-round. The moment Castillas raised the Cup just now was delicious.

  3. Spontaneous drumming and dancing on college street! Ramos kisses the cup as if it was me! People high fiving on the street! What a glorious day in Toronto!

  5. I have to say, it’s almost three hours later and I still can’t see straight. That 3-D has done a number on my eyebones.

  6. as fnarf mentioned early in the liveslog, the spanish team was indeed muy guapos. and all that hair! me gusta.

    it was a pleasure to watch the game along those nifty livesloggers, fnarf, abby, sean and christopher. an added bonus: i met tim keck, a lovely fellow, and his friend with the cool hat. christopher, don’t cry too much, or your eyes will get all swollen. even though your team didn’t win, it was a great match. VIVA ESPANA!!!

  9. Looks like Paul the Oracle Octopus was right. Damn that prognosticator, I’m going to consult him from now on.

    It was a boring game from my point of view at Bastille Day Festival. Germany scores better than the those two (España and Nederland). I waited and waited for someone to score in order to get some good crowd shots. Almost gave up after about 80 minutes.

  10. @10, yeah, for all the hype, that was an amazingly boring tournament. It still managed to out-boring the Superbowl and World Series. I was expecting the game to end with a shootout tie, and then one of the refs arbitrarily awarding the trophy to one team on a technicality, like a nonregulation hairstyle penalty or something.

  11. Glad you liveslogged it, even if I missed it.

    Had fun watching it at the Red Door with a friend and our two sons. Damn but I love pitchers of cider!

  12. @11 – um, the German-Paraguay game was kind of fun, especially with the 1-2 turning into 3-2 and the final attempt at the end.

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