J.A.W.

An entertaining first half, with Germany deservedly leading 1-0 against Argentina, they're the better team.

They will be missed, but there are enough good players in the squad to replace them.

Uruguay progress to the semi-final against the Netherlands, next Tuesday.

Ghana missed a penalty in the dying seconds of extra time. On to a penalty kicks shoot-out now...

Still Uruguay 1, Ghana 1, with less than 20 minutes of extra time left. There've been quite a lot of bad games in this tournament, but this must be one of the worst. Awful, and not entertaining at all in my view. Very bad passing, lots of loss of possession of the ball, etc. etc.

Didn't watch the game, and just learned that the Netherlands beat Brazil 2-1. Didn't expect that to happen. Wow... As a Dutchman I hope you're wrong, but I'm afraid you're right I hope you don't mind, but I'm not sorry to say you were wrong as far as the Netherlands are concerned

Some excellent sets there. Good luck!

As a Dutchman I hope you're wrong, but I'm afraid you're right

Vol.8 has just been released by BIS - in Europe, at least.

As mentioned a few times earlier in this thread the set will cover the 1932-1939 Brunswick (and sublabels) recordings that are now owned by Sony, so don't get any Columbia/Sony CDs with that stuff. Since you're getting the set anyway, you could hold on to any CDs you already have with some of those recordings until you've got the set and then compare them.

Full time: Brazil 3, Chile 0. Another game to forget quickly. Quarter final on Friday: Netherlands v. Brazil.

Bad defending by Chile and Brazil score 3-0. Game over, with about 30 minutes left to play.

Lots of bad passing and silly loss of possession of the ball. Both teams seem to have problems controlling the ball.

Brazil take the lead via a magnificent header: Brazil 1, Chile 0 Wow, things are going fast now: Brazil 2, Chile 0

Well, they got this far despite their lack of finishing, but Brazil might be too big a hurdle for them. Let's wait and see

Netherlands 2, Slovakia 0, with a couple of minutes left. Not a memorable game, on the contrary. Slovakia got an undeserved penalty (it was a dive) and scored in the dying seconds. Full time: Netherlands 2, Slovakia 1

A statement was issued by FIFA after the Germany v. England game that there will be no goal line technology and no instant replays. They're a bunch of guys living in the past century, who don't want any change at all... Very sad.

México finally score, 3-1. --- Full time, no change. Another poor game... Quarter final: Argentina v. Germany next Saturday; a repeat of the 1986 (with West Germany) and 1990 World Cup finals.

Another Argentinian goal, 3-0. The Mexicans can book their flight home.

Argentina take the lead against México with an offside goal, 1-0. When oh when will FIFA finally allow video replays and goal line technology?? Argentina score again and lead 2-0, very bad defending by México.

Any idea if this will be the end of Capello? The tabloids will have a field day...

Even though England were robbed of a second goal at a time when it mattered, Germany deserve to win, they're the better team. (edit) Full time: Germany 4, England 1

Müller scores again, Germany lead 4-1. To quote a famous line: "They think it's all over - it is now" - at least, I think it is.

Müller scores for Germany, they lead 3-1. Bad defending by England. Just over 20 minutes left.

You could call it the German revenge for 1966, the "Bakhramov moment"