Players should have behaved better: Blatter

Johannesburg: FIFA president Sepp Blatter says the Netherlands and Spain players should have behaved better during the World Cup final.

Blatter says he expected more fair play during Sunday's match, which had the most yellow cards of any final in World Cup history.

English referee Howard Webb showed 14 yellows cards and one red for Dutch defender John Heetinga as Spain won 1-0 in extra time.

But Blatter on Monday refused to blame the match officials for their handling of the match, which was watched by an estimated global television audience of 700 million people.

Blatter says the refereeing trio had "a very hard task," and were not helped by the two teams.