I had a hard time deciding whether to should submit my own contribution under this post or the one titled Transfer Gossip Poetry Grenade. Anyway, I hope it's in the Run of Play spirit:

With FIFA boss Blatter complicit,
An out clause may now seem implicit.
So a club can't enslave
Guys like Crissy, poor knave.
And his ass? They might as well kiss it.

I can't help thinking I undermined my whole post by acknowledging the practically universal praise the match garnered, and the consensus recognition that this really was, in the history of sport, a Big Deal. But I think my points still stand. And you're spot on in bringing up the importance of knowing one's history in order to provide proper context for the present. The key is, as with so much, to strike a balance and not fall into the "in the beginning the world is pure and has been in terminal decay ever since" way of thinking, nor that of believing that only what happened in the last few minutes is of any significance (get me started on the concept of 'Premier League records' and watch me go).