i'd like to thank everyone involved for making this thread very well worthy of being read, for weeks and weeks that was. also pretty much no f*cktardry going on in here. i just made this word up. anyway, pretty proud that my first ever thread in the mains became the most consistent, most viewed non-match-related thread in this year's WC subforum. WOOHOO! and cheers.
ps. germany won the thing! i wouldn't have put my money on them, writing angrily against löw and whoops, look how that turned out in the end. kudos to this man.