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Kev, I just re-read the posts, there are two instances of generalisations ("North American" and not "Canucks" and "Americans should know their rules"). There's also an instance of a guy who experienced some tricky forearm action from an American when they visited Europe (not a generalisation), that's it after ~200 odd posts...
Let's keep things in perspective, we reacted to a "dirty" final and then discussed some forearm and blocking rules/plays, no-one's hating on the Americans... although most people were shocked that CC weren't called on the fouls (and CMD too, although we've experienced how they play at the Euros and felt they were the cleaner team in Mr Do's edit, at that specific angle, etc).
There is no "us and them" in my opinion (home team support/cheers excluded) and I'd hope that everyone agrees the final should have been a cleaner affair (showing the sport at it's finest, being ambassadors, setting an example, etc). Time will tell if it's had an impact on the sport, do you feel it was a "good" final for the development of bike polo..?
True that maybe we've focussed on the fouls/drama a little (there was loads of sweet polo played in the final after all), but that's bound to happen for the final of Worlds, don't you think?
Also: We should've been there, London are idiots, gutted, see you in 2012, etc.