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In that case your granny can replace Drogba for Chelsea when he goes off to play in the africa nations cup.

3-0 to Brazil all of a sudden Fabiano 2 and Elano. Brazil are through and the Ivory Coast will struggle if their goal difference suffers any more.

I never thought about it at the time of the Henry handball incident, but Liam Brady gave out about it a lot. Brady scored a hand ball goal for Ireland against France in a world cup qualifier in the early 80s.

I am not too surprised about the relative failures of France and Italy. Italy don't have the players, France don't have a coach or team morale. None of the 2 looked like world beaters when they played us.

This is a tight group and they could end up drawing lots.

draw,draw,argentina,draw,draw,usa,serbia,germany,paraguay,italy,netherlands,draw,ivory coast,brazil,spain,switzerland

A strange goalkeeping mistake to make. Diving past the ball, it shoukd have been saved. We will blame the ball.

This looks like being a very boring game. The Dutch attacking hasn't been very good in this tournament, they need Robben back. I think Hamann may have been right when he suggested Snider wasn't a playmaker and Giles and Dunphy said he was. The Dutch need a playmaker.

In America everybody has a shrink.

If the final 2 games in this group are draws then England go out. Is that correct?

Bradley equalises, 2-2. Now the Yanks have a goal disallowed as well.

The goalie was expecting a cross and was thinking of that and was caught in no mans land with his hands by his side when Donovan decided to shoot. He nearly had his head taken off.

I like the prospect of England v Germany in the second round.

I thought that the player was technically onside but only technically. France were unlucky, most linesmen would have given that as offside.

I thought that Shearer piece was ok, but generally I am fed up witn the BBC breaking away from the football analysis at halftime for reports about this, that and the other. If I want to watch documentaries about Africa I can do that but this is the world cup. Stay focused on the action and analysis lads.