Originally Posted by Marten:
“ How would becoming 3rd make it any better than being able to say you've reached the semi finals as an underdog? Sorry, but I think that arguement is rubbish.
Anyway, I never expected us to reach the final at any stage in this tournament, I still see Argentina as favourites for tonight. We also reached the semi finals as outsiders, I fully expected us to get knocked out in the group stage and I'm very proud of the team for getting this far. If we lose tonight I will still be proud, but my pride wouldn't be any bigger if we'd win that pointless third place game, neither would it be any smaller if we'd lose it. I'm proud of how far we got, but if we lose tonight I'd still be gutted and wouldn't care about the 3rd place and I probably wouldn't watch it.”
BIB - because you are 3rd best in the world rather than 4th best? Like I said, it was a big deal to Croatia, Turkey and Germany in 2006 because they felt like they at least ended their campaign on a win rather than a devastating loss in the semis.
No one forces people to watch the match, so I don't really understand why it's necessary for it to be scrapped

If you don't like it, don't watch it. That goes for all football matches.
P.S. Since you are Dutch, I'm going to let you off on this one, as I'm a big Dutch supporter (if Italy are out of the tournament) and Dutch fans are the best in the world anyway

Holland deserve their first World Cup win. It's not going to be easy against Argentina or Germany, but I think they can just about do it.