![]() Pep Guardiola lauds Man City's 'extraordinary' fifth title in six seasons but insists they have to win Champions League to be considered 'greatest' ![]() They were playing anti-football.'Ĭruyff has also joined in the criticism of referee Howard Webb - but only because he believed the official should have been even firmer and sent off Nigel de Jong for his karate kick to the chest of Xabi Alonso as well as handing a second booking to Arjen Robben for kicking the ball away. If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they ended up losing. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style, yes it served the Dutch to unsettle Spain. 'Holland chose an ugly path to aim for the title. 'So much so that they should have been down to nine immediately, then they made two (such) ugly and hard tackles that even I felt the damage. ![]() 'Sadly, they played very dirty,' said Cruyff. Holland legend Johan Cruyff has launched a scathing attack on the Dutch team's performance, slamming their 'dirty' tactics and their style of 'anti-football'.Ĭruyff, at the heart of the Holland team that earned a reputation of playing 'Total Football' in the 1970s, admits it saddened him to witness the Dutch thuggery. Too lenient: Referee Webb should have sent off Robben for kicking the ball away, says Cruyff ![]()
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