By Ollie Irish

Links!!!

TOP LINK Paul the psychic octopus tips Spain to beat Holland in World Cup final – Goaly Moly

Top World Cup players on Facebook – NY Times

Top 10 players who made their name at the 2010 World Cup – ITV

Photos of miserable German football fans after defeat by Spain – Anorak

David Beckham picks his World Cup star XI – Mirror

Celtic sign eco-friendly kit deal with Nike – FourFourTwo

FIFA to reconsider goal-line technology? Looks that way – BBC

Dutch legend Johan Cruyff rooting for Spain in the final? Looks that way – Mail

West Ham launch new away kit in what looks like a greasy spoon – FSC

Germany manager Joachim Low laid low (tee-hee) by flu. Lahm and Podolski too – AS

Tactical lessons of this World Cup, analysed by the excellent Jonathan Wilson – Guardian

There’s a link between blow jobs and vuvuzelas? Time found one – Busted Coverage

Philipp Lahm doesn’t think much of the third-place playoff. But then again… who does? – Dirty Tackle

FIFA explains the forgotten film of the 1938 World Cup – Pitch Invasion

Why Spain beat Germany, a tactical analysis – Zonal Marking

A tasteless-but-good joke about Raoul Moat and Man City – The Spoiler

From Boston United to Plymouth Argyle: a charity bike ride worth supporting – The Pilgrimage

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