if in disbelief. Then he said, 'Well, that wasn't Barcelona football'." Fabregas eventually apologised to Hughes and Hughes accepted his apology. Fabregas told him he was frustrated because he wanted to win the match. In their run to the 2008 UEFA Cup Final, Rangers manager Walter Smith deployed an ultra-defensive method which was dubbed "Watenaccio". Smith used a 4–1–4–1 variation which used centre-backs and centre-midfielders in wide positions and resulted in Rangers conceding only two goals en route to the final. The tactics brought criticism from opposition players such as Barcelona's Lionel Messi, who failed to score at Ibrox during a 0-0 draw and then went on to describe the tactics as "anti-football". In 2010, Johan Cruyff applied the phrase "anti-football" to the style of play used by the Netherlands in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final against champions and FIFA Fair Play Award winners Spain. The day after the final, Cruyff attacked the Oranje for renouncing the Netherlands' long-standing commitment to playing attacking and entertaining football: "They [the Netherlands] didn't want the ball. And regrettably, sadly, they played very dirty. So much so that they should have been down to nine immediately, then they made two [such] ugly and hard tackles that even I felt the damage. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style, yes it served the Dutch to unsettle Spain. If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they ended up losing. They were playing anti-football." Other commentators had already described the Dutch style of play during the tournament—particularly in the semi-final and final—as "anti-football" prior to Cruyff's comment. After being defeated 2–0, Vietnam manager Henrique Calisto used the phrase "anti-football" to refer to the tactic used against his team by surprise winner Philippines at the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup group stage in Vietnam. After Belgium was defeated by France in the semi-final of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois accused the French of being "an anti-football team", because "they head a corner and do nothing more than defend", despite the fact France had significantly more shots on goal while having less possession and that Belgium had committed significantly more fouls in the match. See also Parking the bus Association football tactics Total Football UEFA fairplay prize References Association football terminology Association football tactics