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>1974
Netherlands were great, but Germany had crushed everyone else in 1972. People like raving about Cruyff, Neeskens, Krol and the like, but the German team was even more stacked: Maier, Vogts, Beckenbauer, Breitner, Müller, Overath. Günter Netzer on the bench. That was a champion team, and they didn't receive significant aid in the final. Instead, Müller's legit 3rd goal got disallowed. Netherlands would have been worthy champions as well, but they got too cocky when in the lead
>1978
Kind of a dirty World Cup, but I can't really blame the Argentinian team as a whole
>1982
Italy upset Germany in the final. Considering the logic so far, this table should award the win to Germany. But they lost the final without real interference, so Italy deserved it
>1986
Hard to argue with Argentina being the best overall that time
>1990
Very unspectacular final, but Germany was superior all in all, so it's okay
>1994
I kind of feel like many would give the win to Italy here. It was a penalty shootout for the title, anything could happen. But it's okay
>1998
Another one to Brazil. Because of the Ronaldo poison story, I assume? Doesn't really add up to me
>2002
Germany were pretty trash in 2002, although they could have miraculously won the final. Brazil were fine
>2006
Italy had a refball moment against the Aussies, but they played well in total. France could have won had Zidane kept his cool. Hard to give it to them when it's all on him
>2010
Spain were pretty boring, but the Netherlands weren't exciting either. The most exciting team was Germany, and Müller should have been allowed to play the semifinal. But this was Spain's era, they were too good overall
>2014
Yeah, fair
>2018
France narrowly edged out Belgium in the semifinal, but that was okay to me. Fair win
>2022
The tournament reeked of riggi, but unless France got poisoned, they don't deserve the title based on how trash they were the first half