Finality

16 Ramadhan 1435

I managed to keep getting it wrong right until the end. Although I didn't say it our loud, there was I thinking penalties were a dead certainty and Argentina would edge them, when the Germans scored what was really a classic - just as I was putting my first handful of rice for sahur into my mouth, as it happens. Good that it ended with a clear-cut win on a great goal and good that the best team, looking at the tournament as a whole, won. I hate it when these things are decided on penalties. Sad for Messi. He'll never be thought of as on a par with Maradona after this result, and his was an uncharacteristically poor finish when he did have the chance to put Argentina in front.