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Paul will be truly missed at the next Euro and World Cup, but hey, I hear there’s a flying monkey in Argentina, maybe he’s the next big Paul…or not!

Rakan Diab was the person with the most points scoring the number one spot for the last week of the World Cup although many were advancing.

In keeping with the most popular formation of the tournament, this World Cup XI will play in the 4-2-3-1 formation that has ruled club football for the last few seasons but has only been adapted on mass in international football this summer. Apologies if some choices are obvious but this isn’t a ‘shock XI’ or ‘over achievers’; it is simply players that stood out and made a real difference for their teams.

In the end the best team won, maybe not the best team of the tournament but the best team in the world. No one can deny that over the last 2-3 years Spain has ruled supreme over the international world with 51 wins in 55 games, an unprecedented success.

Best Player: Diego Forlan – Joint top goalscorer and leader of the tournament’s shock team. Showed how to continue a grueling season having fought on several fronts for Atletico Madrid.

The World Cup has provided some incredible stories and moments but nothing comes near the madness and brilliance of Zinedine Zidane’s inexplicable head butt that spelled the end of one of the greatest careers of all time.

The 1986 World Cup, according to a recent poll in esteemed football magazine ‘FourFourTwo’, has gone down as the greatest World Cup of them all. The thanks for that goes largely to one small man, Diego Armando Maradona

Described as ‘the mother of all games’ by the US Soccer Federation president, Iran’s match up with deadly foes the US was always likely to have fireworks.

I think we can safely say last night’s game between Spain and Germany was essentially the final or certainly the purists’ final between the best team in the tournament and the best team in the world.

Down to four and the South American dominance appears to have come to an end with only Uruguay representing the continent in the semi finals. First off tonight we have Uruguay vs Holland which really should be an intriguing encounter.