Class: Fernando Torres.

Classless: Joey Barton.

If only all the beautiful game’s players lived up to Didi’s dead-perfect description.

Congratulations to Spain for playing the beautiful game beautifully; you deserved to win Euro 2008. And thanks to Turkey for some of the most unbelievable comebacks I’ve witnessed and to Russia for guaranteeing plenty of future excitement. This tournament has been a wonderful advertisement for the world’s game, albeit to a world (outside the US) that’s already embraced the beautiful game.

It’s time everyone embraces football.