Crazy Gang the League Cup. It is difficult to determine precisely when the term fell out of use. However, as Wimbledon became more established in the top flight of English football after promotion in 1986, their style of play became much more sophisticated over time and their players' bizarre behaviour was no longer as unexpected to the media as before. It can be said that the nickname lost much of its previous effect at the point it became official — when the club's owner Sam Hammam decided to use it in the club's own marketing. This was carried to the extent that
Spain national football team Aragonés used tiki-taka to "protect a defense that appeared suspect [...], maintain possession and dominate games" without taking the style to "evangelical extremes". None of Spain's first six goals in the tournament came from tiki-taka: five came from direct breaks and one from a set play. For Lowe, Spain's success in the 2010 World Cup was evidence of the meeting of two traditions in Spanish football: the "powerful, aggressive, direct" style that earned the silver medal-winning 1920 Antwerp Olympics team the nickname "La Furia Roja" ("The Red Fury") and the tiki-taka style of the contemporary Spanish team, which focused on