Many congratulations to Europe, the thoroughly deserved victors of the 2018 Ryder Cup.
The home side were deserved victors, having controlled play for long spells in the contest and held the advantage with goals from Michael Gardyne and Craig Curran.
Arsenal were occasionally vibrant, almost always solid – which was arguably the biggest boon, after the well documented, recent lapses – and thoroughly deserved victors.
This time it was Everton who dominated, who failed to take several gilt-edged chances, and who ran out deserved victors.
Former Sydney FC and Newcastle Jets striker Chris Payne scored early on for Manly, however Olympic eventually found their rhythm on Cromer Park's artificial surface to run out deserved victors.
In a game worth around £170m to the winners Hull were deserved victors and could have won by more were it not for the excellent performance of the Wednesday goalkeeper, Keiren Westwood.
Instead the world champions were deserved victors at Edgbaston, competing fiercely to defend a total of 129 in front of a home-from-home crowd, the massed India flags creating a collage of tricolour around the Eric Hollies stand as India's spinners turned the screw on a sharply turning pitch.
Macheda notched his second with a 20-yard volley but Bournemouth were deserved victors.
"For the full 90 minutes we were the deserved victors," Hodges said.
"The Crues were the better side and created the better chances - they were deserved victors".
