[Claudia Cook]

Look, our goalie stopped a very simple shot!

[Kate Murrell]

Look, our goalie stopped a very simple shot!

Hey the Danes just put an Ajax player on, that's cheating! Oh and almost a second.

[Michelle Smith]

Most Danes have some connection with Dutch football, including the coach. Weird.

[Edit] Nice, 2-0. And done. Nice.

[kelly thomson]

Most Danes have some connection with Dutch football, including the coach. Weird.

[Edit] Nice, 2-0. And done. Nice.

:( I needed one more bye bye easy money

[Mizz.Jayy]

Meh, I've seen better. Dutch were just lucky. The second goal only happened because Danes were forced to open up more because they had to attack, which was caused by the first lucky goal.

[Facebook me]

It almost was 3-0. Was my prediction in the money competition as well. This only gets me 1 point.

[Yama Pi]

Meh, I've seen better. Dutch were just lucky. The second goal only happened because Danes were forced to open up more because they had to attack, which was caused by the first lucky goal.

That's football.

[Tyrel]

Dutch only started looking good once Elia came on. Pretty laborious win really.

[Cat Haines]

Yeah, but that's good. Now we can grow into the tournament, instead of burning up after the third match.

[sam]

That's football.

I never said that it wasn't, but in this case it wasn't only football but also luck. If the whole point of football is luck then why didn't they all just come together one day and had a coin-flipping contest?

[Kortniie Dumont]

I never said that it wasn't, but in this case it wasn't only football but also luck. If the whole point of football is luck then why didn't they all just come together one day and had a coin-flipping contest?

Ssshh, Blatter might hear that!

[Benito Martinez]

Didn't they used to toss a coin to determine the winner if a knockout tie was still level after extra time?

[James Hate]

I'm quite happy with the results so far. All three teams I'm cheering for (Slovenia, Netherlands, Germany - in that order) won their first game. ^_^ I would've liked it better if all three would have properly won (and not just Germany), but you know what they say about gift horses and teeth.

[Jason Wolf]

Didn't they used to toss a coin to determine the winner if a knockout tie was still level after extra time?

Before the penalty shootout was instituted? I don't know. But when the result after the match plus extra time is still even, then really the only thing that can win the match for any team is luck. Penalty shootouts themselves are mostly luck anyway but at least skill definitely has more influence there than in a coin toss.

[Nuno Castro]

Damn the current match is boring...

edit: Oy, finally goal! Yay Japan!

[Scott Clemmons]

Cameroon and Ghana are my teams.

Ghana got a win and Cameroon is still in it.

[michael flanigan]

Can't watch any more of this tripe, I think that's me done for today (not going to watch any Italy games until they play a decent team). Again, I watched most of the first half of this game with the sound off for two reasons - firstly, those damn vuvuzelas, and secondly the BBC commentary team's need to talk down EVERYTHING in EVERY game. It's [censored] annoying, they spend the first five minutes talking about what players play in England, and from then on it's just [censored]ing and moaning about the game that they've been given the great displeasure of being paid to commentate on.


I know it's early days yet, but this World Cup isn't really shaping up too great...

[Katharine Newton]

I know it's early days yet, but this World Cup isn't really shaping up too great...

It will get better, don't worry.

Worst case scenario it will at least get more interesting in the 2nd round because the teams which lost this round will be forced to play more openly and aggressively.

[Russell Davies]

Cameroon is definitely playing livelier in the second half, but the match is still a bit "dead" overall.

[Leticia Hernandez]

I have tried to watch a couple of games on TV, and I can't stand those stupid horns people are continually blowing in the stadiums. I don't know what they're called, or why people feel the need to have them, but they should be banned. Those things are so horribly annoying, they take a sport that is already hard enough for me to watch as it is, and make it unbearable. I mean seriously, if they handed those things out at an American sporting event, someone would be arrested for starting a fight. Just one more thing I neither like nor understand about soccer.

[suniti]

I have tried to watch a couple of games on TV, and I can't stand those stupid horns people are continually blowing in the stadiums. I don't know what they're called, or why people feel the need to have them, but they should be banned. Those things are so horribly annoying, they take a sport that is already hard enough for me to watch as it is, and make it unbearable. I mean seriously, if they handed those things out at an American sporting event, someone would be arrested for starting a fight. Just one more thing I neither like nor understand about soccer.

Don't tar us all with the same brush. You wont get those damn things in any other football competition, and it's a farce that we're supposed to put up with them.

Of course, if the broadcasters had any sense at all they'd just filter out the loudest horn frequencies.

[Sheila Reyes]

Just one more thing I neither like nor understand about soccer.

Vuvuzelas (that's what they're called) themselves don't actually have anything to do with football (that's what it's called), they could be equally used by audience on any other sport event. Fans from some nations use specific cheering requisites, if that's the proper term in English, whose sound becomes a sort of a trademark of the fans from that nation. These requisites are usually used to make an occasional sound during the match for better atmosphere (for both the audience and the team they're cheering on) and also for a more energetic celebration of a goal by sounding the requisites off more frequently when the team scores a goal. That's precisely the thing that vuvuzelas don't have in common with any other cheering requisite - instead of using them to make an occasional sound or frequent sound only when the team scores a goal, they're blown constantly and produce a constant monotone noise. Moreover, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela and that, coupled with the fact that each vuvuzela produces a monotone sound of equal frequency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela) is the reason why a bunch of vuvuzelas sounding off in unison will produce an extremely loud noise, amplifying each other's sound by a far greater degree than any other cheering requisite. These two things, that they're used constantly thus making their sound basically meaningless and nothing other than an annoyance and that they're so extremely loud, are the reason why many people are trying to convince FIFA to ban them from football matches.

[cassy]

http://elderscrolls.com/links/links_redirect.php?site=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-DuGGCf68

[jessica breen]

http://elderscrolls.com/links/links_redirect.php?site=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-DuGGCf68

Adebayor's an ass-hat.

I'm sure his anolysis would be equally poor even if he spoke perfect English. Hope Van Persie fly kicks him in the face some day!

[Juanita Hernandez]

So Liverpool just won there first game of the tournament against Denmark. Agger and Kuyt scored.