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Netherlands 0 – Costa Rica 0 (4-3 pens)

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 They’d stunned fine teams (as well as England’s best)

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 But surely NOW they’d get their due comeuppance.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Against the Dutch, as bookies did attest,

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 No sober betting man would give them tuppence

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 For Costa Rica’s firmament is starless

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Revolving round the Fulham reject Ruiz –

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 Some obscure club employs fullback Gonzales

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 (Does anyone know what Columbus Crew is?)

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 Yet once again they stood up to the giants

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 And kept on going, digging ever deeper.

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 It took spot-kicks to conquer their defiance

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 And van Gaal’s genius move to change the keeper

13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 Thus orange shirts will brighten one more game
But whites hereon will grace the halls of fame

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/netherlands-0-costa-rica-0-4-3-pens/