And I thought supporting England was frustrating. Italy often fail to fulfil their obvious potential and this World Cup was no exception.
There was a lot of moaning and groaning about this and that when they lost to South Korea, but at the end of the day they've only got themselves to blame.
They are notorious for being too conservative. It can be an easy frame of mind to fall into when you've got a defensive unit as formidable as theirs, but if you live by the sword you have to be prepared to die by it.
But that doesn't help me understand that mindset when you have such rapier-like forwards as Francesco Totti, Christian Vieri, Alessandro del Piero and Filippo Inzaghi
You look at that list and think that they could score goals for fun, but as a team they never really seemed to hit their stride and were overly reliant on Vieri.
He scored four of their five goals - which is a very good haul - but he'll be left thinking about that one that got away in the dying moments against South Korea.
