I fucking despise them for three reasons;
1) In matches where I should be neutral, I side with the underdogs almost every time. Obviously, Spain are not the underdogs, so yeah.
2) Their boring ass play style. I'm fed up of people just rimming Spains asshole for managing to pass the ball from left back to center back to left back over and over and over and over. Yes, it's successful, but how is it entertaining? It's way more entertaining to see a defensive team utilize cold blooded tactics to their fullest extent. With Spain it's just Xavi passing to Puyol who passes to Pique who passes to Xavi... Repeat 200 times.
3) Their players are a bunch of fucking assholes. You've got Ramos, who I'm sure is going to try and murder someone again before this tournament ends (although his partner in crime Pepe isn't next to him, so he might have to put in a bit more effort), and the rest of the team, who are a bunch of diving fuckwads.
Now, previously I said repeat passing from CB to LB 200 times. This would actually be 400 times, but Spain spend so much friggin time rolling around on the ground while the few players that can resist doing the same swarm the referee that it's practically half the match. Star struck (or corrupt, it's the UEFA so I wouldn't be surprised) referees actually buy into this shit and thus year in year out you get treated to Spain and Spanish league teams winning competitions by bullshitting their way through. Nothing gets me raging more than thinking of all those unjustified fucking penalties and red cards that have helped Spain along their way.
Then theres stuff like dancing around a member of the losing team taunting them after a match, which is just plain disrespectful. So yeah. They're a bunch of cunts.
EDIT: Also, never forget. Coughing at a member of the Spanish national team = red card, 50 match ban, 2 year prison sentence.
In fairness, France were the better side by quite some margin, dominating possession and keeping us pegged inside our own half for most of the game, most of our players looked to be pretty fatigued around the 70min mark, that right back of yours (I forget his name) was running rings around Ashley Cole and when we weren't giving it away, we also weren't creating much with the possession we did have. Taking some positives away from the performance though; defensively I felt we were solid for most of the game (barring the breakthroughs down the right), the capricious Joleon Lescott surprised me with how well he held the line; forcing Benzema outside the 18 yard box for most of the duration. Danny Welbeck and Oxlade-Chamberlain looked very promising on the rare times they were on the ball and really, I'm pretty satisfied with a draw from this result and it's about what I expected us to get anyway, although in future we'll definately need to be more assertive. Ukraine really surprised me tonight; they passed the ball around quite well, their switch play was impressive threading through some incisive diagonal balls and Shevchenko's movement was excellent, especially for a dude who's about 103, he really did well to exploit the Swede's lackluster defending to head those two home. And while Imbrahimovic may have some impressive control on the ball, he's a lazy bastard and they seem far to dependent on him. So hopefully in spite of their bogey-team status, England will be able to capitalise on what looks to be a rather unnerved Swedish side. :3
