I think some of their excuses they've used are a bit lame, like I said though, I didn't see the actual thing, I only saw the pictures in the papers the next day.
There would be no guy better qualifyed than Ballack on the team to take that Pen, and I'm glad he did too, cause Germans never seem to miss Pens, if we had Lampard taking it, it might be another story

Yeah I watched the whole thing (there were a few minutes that I was flicking back and forth between the F1 qualifying and the game, but I saw everything worth seeing.