Robben won't mind winning ugly in WC final

Johannesburg: Considering it was a move of beauty that jeopardized his World Cup, it comes as little surprise Arjen Robben does not really care how the Netherlands beats Spain on Sunday. As long as he can lift the trophy.

In a warm-up match on June 5 against Hungary, he tried a delicate back-heel flick, a flash of flair for which the Dutch are famous, when he suddenly flinched in pain and fell to the ground with a left hamstring injury.

Suddenly it seemed that the Netherlands had lost one of its best players, less than a week ahead of the World Cup opener. Tender hamstrings are notoriously difficult to play with.

Robben says "if you would have told me then what would happen here, I simply would not have believed it."