I'm curious as to what you folks think of the vuvuleza?

Was waiting to see how long it would take for somebody to catch THAT one

I totally hate it. It must ruin the experience in the stadium and I'm glad I didn't go all the way down to SA to sit and listen to that noise live.

Today we have two interesting matches:

Netherlands vs. Denmark

Italy vs. Paraguay

I'm sure this one will bring a lot of heated posts from our Danish and Dutch SimHQ members.

Yes I'm aware of Ceri.

My family are very good friends with John Hill (ex World Cup All White 1982). Infact we know quite a few others as a number of the national team played for Giborne City (where I live). I think it helped that Kevin Fallon was the coach at the time. In saying that Gisborne was one of the best teams at the time.

Dutch look the better team at the moment but Denmark look dangerous on the break.

The boss gave us permission to watch the game live at work today. Halftime now, it's a bit boring actually. Hopefully the 2nd half wil bring some fun.

Go Denmark!!!

and two minutes later we score... - But an own goal! - damn'....

England 1 - USA 1 -> Sorry but from an outside perspective, it was a boring game . And i thought it was going to be very entertaining, considering that England have�s IMO one of the best teams today, and USA usually try to play very good futbol (soccer). But England didn�t play well, and USA didn�t showed that good "futbol" (Spanish term of the game) that played on the last three world cups. I remember Korea-Japan worldcup that USA played very well but lacked a little bit of luck.
Lot of people blame the poor Green because of the tie, but England had a full half time to score again and was not capable of doing it, so the full team had a low performance.

Germany 4 - Australia 0 -> Not much to say, Germany outperformed Australie in every zone of the field. So far the best game of the tournament. Didn�t know the number 8 of Germany, very VERY interesting player, have�s a lot of quality and skill with the ball. I will keep following this guy on the next germany games!

Argentina 1 - Nigeria 0 -> Final score should have been Argentine 3 - Nigeria 1, because of the opportunitys created to score for both teams, but well. Argentina deserved to win, made some good things, and also some bad things (lack of definition and weak right wing defense) that better be improved to advance on the tournament. Each time Messi gets the ball and goes foward its a completely diferent team .

Couldn�t see the other games. So far Germany gave me the best impressions, by far!. Hope they keep it up, unless they play against Argentina, of course!

Come on Denmark, i have big hope for you!

Noooo, 2-0 for Holland, and only three minuts left.

Why on Earth does Maradonna play Gutierezz at right back? Surely there must be someone better suited to that position, even discounting the ancient Zanetti.

Nice save from Poulsen in the 87th minute... 10 centimeters from the goal

Yes, the save was made by the guy who made the own goal, so he made amends, somewhat...

Very nice to see our coach, morten olsen, do what he could to comfort poulsen, after the match. It was a freak own goal any way...

Damn' though!

So I see Green has some company now.

Don't worry Frey... Denmark is an excellent team and will have a lot of good moments in the WC.

See you in the finals!

What are we supposed to think? Its annoying. Just looking at that picture makes my ears bleed a little.

Wish i could answer that!. To be real, with the exception of Zanetti, its been years since Argentina lacks of good right wind defenders. Burdisso could occupy that position because he did a good job in the last world cup playing on the right (until got injured), but he is a central denfender so its not his natual position. I would give an arm for a Roberto Carlos, Lahm or Lizarazu on the right .
As for Maradonna and why he puts Gutierrez on the right back, well, all i can say is that we suffer the same problem as the frenchs, we have a bad manager. Still i think Domenech is even worst that Maradona . My apoloogies to the frenchs buddys around here, noh mean to offend.

I tend to agree. Cold shouldering a player like Esteban Cambiasso is madness. Have they got some sort of personal feud going or something?

It's a pity because Argentina are my second team after England, but I think they're a bit disfunctional under Maradonna. Unfortunately, I don't think they'll do as well as many are tipping to be honest.