Yay for Voidster.

So thus far we have:

Uruguay vs South Korea

Argentina vs Mexico

Germany vs England

USA vs Ghana

Brazil and Netherlands through as well.

you could add hot places/cold places to that list; ivory coast ain't making up that goal difference.

Oh yeah. Lekwid Unjinerring through too.

its pronounced PLAYCES

Argentina vs Mexico

if mexico can field a full squad should be a corker!

and Hot Playces will beat Cold Playces,

although liquid engineering is the real winner.

Hey my neighbour is on Cup Fever

go Les go.

i am so in love with holiday sidewinder now. when she sings 'fever when you hold me tight', just.. amazing.

I'm so tired of Les and Craig. Also, how the fuck does Zdrilic get a gig? so stupid.

paraguay to give nz a hiding here.

italy to scrape through undeservedly again somehow against slovakia.

They won't play the full cold playces ad anymore. I'm outraged.

both the 'guays have great national anthems.

Agreed nicko.

Got money on Paraguay and Italy but would love the Kiwis and/or Slovakia to get up.

Slovakia are up against the Italians.

Slovakian almost just scored the goal of the tournament with a first time volley, awesome. Come Slovakia!

Nz are playing well I reckon.

GO KIWIIIS! hope Slovakia maintain that lead too.

I mean come on Slovakia.... not- Bratislava fill the Danube with jizz...

So if New Zealand were to win 1-0 at this point, they would be drawing lots to see who goes through out of them and Slovakia.

Saw a guy, completely naked except for a Spanish flag around his waist, talking to a couple of very stern looking cops.

It wasn't Frank Camora was it?

Team who plays attacking and flair based football has lumps kicked out of them by a negative, hard at it side shocker.

I was secretly relishing the idea of that worm Van Bommel holding up the world cup in a massive fuck you to any semblance of decent football but Busquets and Iniesta are absolutely awful divers and them being winners balances it out.

Fabregas changed the game, Spain looked absolutely lost until he came on. As a pure footballing spectacle it was awful to watch, but it was pretty intriguing, first half full of kicking, opened up in the second, great goalkeeping late to keep both sides in it till extra time.. Good stuff.

I was secretly relishing the idea of that worm Van Bommel holding up the world cup in a massive fuck you to any semblance of decent football

I had images of a particularly smarmy looking Jose Mourinho inexplicably butting-in on the Dutch players lifting the cup, waving it about his head with one hand and flicking v-signs to everyone while thrusting his crotch at the assembled cameras in what would have been the most profound vindication of his method.

thankfully, we were spared.

Special1 TV!!

''look at my haircut, i am ready for war'' - mourinho.

So Kazpatafta won the fantasy. Where is he? I want to see his team of the tournament...

''Dutch stars Arjen Robben and Nigel de Jong launched a bitter attack on English referee Howard Webb after the Netherlands had succumbed to Andres Iniesta's extra-time winner in the World Cup final.'' The Age

Seriously what a bunch of sooks the dutch are Robben missed a sitter and de Jong karate kicked a spanish player in the chest. Sure some calls went against them, but the ref could have easily given de Jong and Van Bommel red crads in the first half.

kaz is our own Casual Ned, and has been sorely missed for the latter stages.

It felt like all game I was yelling at Iniesta to have a fckin' pop at goal. Kinda fitting that he got the winner, then. For all their pretty play, Cesc really does bring a much-needed directness to the Spanish midfield. I hope that he's got that whole 'winning trophies' thing out of the way and now opts to stay at Arsenal.

I'd much prefer Holland with both Van Bommel and De Jong off the scene (am I right the Van Bommel is Marwijk son-in-law?). They're at the root of all the foul play, really. Van der Vaart should start ahead of one of them, at least.

thought some other Van was the relation. (one who came off the bench?)

I'd much prefer Holland with both Van Bommel and De Jong off the scene (am I right the Van Bommel is Marwijk son-in-law?). They're at the root of all the foul play, really. Van der Vaart should start ahead of one of them, at least.

until they get a better defensive quartet they'll stick with the two headkickers in front of them.

in fairness to them, if they'd gone out with nothing but Corinthian joie de vivre they'd have been on the end of a hammering. but they went way too far in the other direction. Dutch football deserves far better than the regrettable butchering carried out in its name this morning.

It's ironic that the Dutch legend of 'total football' Johan Cruyff went to Barcelona and now the end result of all of that is that Spain beat the Dutch at their own game.

thought some other Van was the relation. (one who came off the bench?)

van Bommel is van Marwijk's son in law.

kaz is our own Casual Ned

Ha! He is.

Cesc really does bring a much-needed directness to the Spanish midfield

I've never understood Alonso in the team before him. Some would say they are different players. I say too right. Look what Fabregas brings compared to Alonso...the oppurtunity to win. I would say Cesc is a better shot from distance too.

Sure some calls went against them, but the ref could have easily given de Jong and Van Bommel red crads in the first half.

As well as 2 penalties. They would have been soft penalties but those were fouls anywhere else on the pitch. I don't know what Foster was talking about (I guess we never do) when he said Heitinga's foul on Xavi wasn't a penalty. His foot impeded Xavi's in his shooting action. It would have been harsh and given them more reason to complain but it's still a foul. I reckon Webb did a pretty good job. The Spanish were pressuring for cards and there could have been some reds, mostly for the Dutch, but he made as few controversial decisions as he could in World Cup that was littered with them.

Webb's taking a bit of a bath, and he's hardly my favourite ref, but it seems rather unfair.

from the Dutch it seems they're trying to deflect criticism from their approach. if anything they got an easy ride from Webb: de Jong should have gone, van Bommel was worth at least another yellow in the first half, as Gordon points out the Xavi and Alonso incidents could have been given as penalties on another day. Webb might have been able to keep a lid on the Dutch midfield's approach if he'd been a bit more brave with the red card early on, but it's understandable he wants to keep 22 players on the pitch unless absolutely necessary in a final (that said, it was pretty much absolutely necessary in de Jong's case).

obviously the corner not given (although from said kick off the Dutch regained possession, only for Elia to piss it away with a giant swan dive going into the area - thus giving the ball to Navas. you know the rest) and Robben's second one-on-one with Casillas with Puyol holding on for dear life are slightly more legitimate grievances, but even those aren't as scandalous as some would have us believe.

''Dutch stars Arjen Robben and Nigel de Jong launched a bitter attack on English referee Howard Webb after the Netherlands had succumbed to Andres Iniesta's extra-time winner in the World Cup final.'' The Age

Seriously what a bunch of sooks the dutch are Robben missed a sitter and de Jong karate kicked a spanish player in the chest. Sure some calls went against them, but the ref could have easily given de Jong and Van Bommel red crads in the first half.

I wouldn't put too much faith in a headline from The Age. If you read the comments made by the players in the actual article, they're no different to what everyone here is saying - there were a number of decisions that could have gone either way for both teams, but in the end you can't blame the ref.

I think Webb did a great job. His goal was for the final to be remebered for the play, not the referring decisions, and unfortanately for him the players made that extremely difficult.

Any truth to the rumour Sneijder and Robben refuse to pass it to Van Persie, I wonder? Seems pretty far-fetched. Feel sorry for the latter, though. Obviously not in the best of form but he's hardly been given any service. He's been making some decent runs and has seemingly been sacrificed. It's a shame, it also seems he's gone down in people's estimation (Fozzie barely referred to him as a threat), when he can be a real game-breaker. (I'm an Arsenal fan)

heard it used to be more the case, but they decided to put the team first this time round (supposedly)

van persie was pretty average this game without people hating on him.

Yeah, I'd heard that before. Van persies effectiveness seems to have been limited to being a link man and hold up player rather than an out and out striker. Quite a few times he was waving his arms and screaming for the ball and being ignored. Bit disappointing really, surely the Dutch would be more effective if the had actually tried to use him when he had got into shooting positions, I can't remember him taking a shot in the final except for acouple of under heavy pressure headers.

Aw thanks HRS. I got a chance to tour up north with some awesome people and see the Dead C, thus no internet access.

I actually need to watch the semi finals and final in full before I make my team of the tournament. But I reckon Maxi Perreira is nearly my player of the tournament considering how unknown he was before. Fucking brilliant right back.

I actually need to watch the semi finals and final in full before I make my team of the tournament. But I reckon Maxi Perreira is nearly my player of the tournament considering how unknown he was before. Fucking brilliant right back.

So here we were talking as if you were our Casual Ned. It turns out you're our Zeljko Kalac. Your subjective opinion on player of the tournament is outrageous. Next you'll be telling us an Octopus can predict the outcome of games.

I know I'm an idiot but c'mon man, Kalac? That's a bit unnecessarily harsh!

Ok my team of the tournament. Apologies to Thomas Muller, a heap of goalkeepers (with no real standout past the group stage) and Sergio Ramos.

The US news services never really understood the game.

Sugar Minott died? Oh man! His song Oh Mr DC is one of reggae's all-time classic. Smooth voice, but not the place to discuss it.

World Cup footballers given public kicking NORTH KOREA
August 1, 2010
.NORTH Korean footballers, who lost all three of their World Cup games, have been subjected to a six-hour excoriation for ''betraying'' the communist nation's ideological struggle, according to reports.

There are even fears for the safety of the team coach, Kim Jung-hun, who was accused of betraying the son and heir of the regime's ''dear leader,'' Kim Jong-il.

On their return from South Africa, the players were summoned to an auditorium at the working people's culture palace in Pyongyang, forced onstage and subjected to a six-hour barrage of criticism for their poor performances, according to the US-based Radio Free Asia. The ''grand debate'' was reportedly witnessed by 400 athletes and sports students.

u20 womens world cup final on now on sbs.

nigeria vs germany.

looks for vuvuzela