World Cup 2010.

[RICHARD]

Well done Germany and the USA,good luck everyone,oops nearly forgot the Aussies, where are you Wombat, are you not watching the games,? watch out for the kiwis and paraquay on Friday, it will air live 2am here, no i won't be watching but my son will.

Good Luck, I'll watch the game for you!

[RICHARD]

WOW!

What a couple of games...

The Slovak/Italy game was a barn burner!!!!!

Tie for New Zealand!

[Kirsten]

Wow, Italy's out! They fought bravely in the end, I almost feel sorry for them (but I haven't forgotten the semi final of 2006 ). However, it's been a very emotional match!

Sorry, Carole, that New Zealand's 0:0 wasn't enough... I was keeping my fingers crossed for your team!

[carole]

Alas the dream is over for the kiwis, still we can hold our heads high on this one i think, beating Italy and a draw with Paraquay, our guy's should not be too upset, the captain of the team is gutted and seemed very emotional on his interview.

Did you see all the big stink at the end of our game, one of our guys wanted to hug his family in the audience, and they would not let him, yet previously they had done that, security were not having a bar of it, they finally let him in the end, and we of course were not allowed to perform our traditional HAKA, which is really for the kiwi fans,talk about over the top, even the guys came out in their riot gear, boo South Africa, where is your fun spirit?

I noticed our guys were wearing black when playing, hmm as a colour co-ordinated female here, that is where they went wrong, after all they are called the all-whites and wore white for the other game lol.

Well kirsten i see Germany is playing England, good luck, sorry but my loyalties have to lie with the Brits, being originally from the UK,but may the best man win as the saying goes.

I have not been following the games too much, so tell me is USA still in with a chance, and Aussie?

[Husky_mom]

Well, in 2006, Germany beat Argentina in the quarter final, so it's possible!

well yeah... but we´re talking GERMANY.. not Mexico.. lol.. Germany is right there in the tops.. along with Argentina, Brazil, Netherlands, England, France and Italy (the last two severely plunged down this time) in my book..

[Alysser]

I finally got my Italy Jersey in the mail on the day Italy is eliminated Well, at least it looks nice.

[smokey the elder]

USA made it to Round 2, beating Algeria in stoppage time!

[Catty1]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/1...uzela_violence

Police: Vuvuzela noise drives an American nuts

Fri Jun 25, 10:50 AM

By The Associated Press

BERLIN - German police say an American got so fed up with the constant mosquito-like droning from his neighbours' vuvuzela plastic horns that he threatened to kill them with an axe.

Police in the Bavarian city of Weiden said Friday the 45-year-old man confronted his neighbours during Thursday's Netherlands-Cameroon World Cup game wielding the axe.

They said he was so sick of the constant buzzing and honking from the vuvuzelas since the tournament began that he screamed: "I will kill you," and then returned home.

German authorities took the U.S. Army civilian employee into custody and turned him over to U.S. military police. The military says he has been released and the matter is in German hands.

Prosecutors are investigating whether to charge the man, whose name was not released, with making a threat and slander for allegedly calling his neighbours names.

The cheap, meter (yard)-long vuvuzela trumpets have become a side story of the World Cup in South Africa, where their buzzing has been the backdrop to every match.

Players have been criticizing the noise because they find it difficult to take advice from the bench, and visiting fans have no chance for community singing amid the noise.

A French cable TV channel even offers vuvuzela-free broadcasts for all World Cup matches, with the trumpets digitally tuned out.

Defenders include FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu — and masses of South African football fans.

The trumpets were first produced and marketed in 2001 by South African Neil Van Schalkwyk, who still owns the rights to the vuvuzela name. His latest innovation is to sell each with a pair of earplugs included.

[Kirsten]

Candace, I heard about that incident in the news yesterday! Someone in my neighborhood is also blowing a vuvuzela all the time, but so far, I don't feel the need to kill that person!

I finally got my Italy Jersey in the mail on the day Italy is eliminated Well, at least it looks nice.

Oh, that is amost bittersweet! I'm sorry!

Well kirsten i see Germany is playing England, good luck, sorry but my loyalties have to lie with the Brits, being originally from the UK,but may the best man win as the saying goes.

No problem!


Well, tonight, the USA will play Ghana, and I will keep my fingers crossed for the US-team!


Richard, guess what, Paul the Octopus has predicted that Germany will win the match tomorrow. Hope he's right! He was even on the news today! LOL

[RICHARD]

Kirsten,

If you made a money bet, I get a percentage!

[Kirsten]

Kirsten,

If you made a money bet, I get a percentage!

My bet was 2:1, but not for money!

[RICHARD]

My bet was 2:1, but not for money!

Chocolate?

[Kirsten]

Chocolate?

1:2, there goes my bet...

[RICHARD]

1:2, there goes my bet...

The fat lady has not sung yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_ain%...fat_lady_sings

[Kirsten]

Ahh, I'm sorry that the US team hasn't made it. I mean, it's great for Africa that an African team is still in the tournament, but I was keeping my fingers crossed for the USA 'cause I have so many American friends here.