J.A.W.

Yep, it could cost them the game - and get them a ticket home...

Germany usually don't play very well in the first round games, only to get better in the knock-out rounds This time they were excellent - so far at least.

Hey, come on, that's not fair; they're only doing their job, they didn't make the rules. Funny, that was also the excuse given by most of the....never mind. My point is that accusing customs of acting like Nazis is way out of proportion and over the line. It's a nuisance when someone's foreign packages are mis-handled by customs, but crimes against humanity, war crimes and mass murder as committed by the Nazis are in a totally different class. Let's keep things in perspective.

See Jim's post dated May 3, 2009, here.

It's a low-scoring tournament: 25 goals in the first 16 games, an average of 1.56 goals per game. The majority (almost two-thirds) of the Swiss population speak German

Full time: Spain 0, Switzerland 1. Another not very good game.

A major upset in the making: Spain 0, Switzerland 1, with only about 10 minutes to go. Spain are the better team, but their attacks are surprisingly ineffective. The Swiss got a few big scoring chances. Wow.

Hey, come on, that's not fair; they're only doing their job, they didn't make the rules.

Chile were clearly the better team, but the finishing was indeed appalling, they should have scored at least two more goals.

Jim has just added the "no commenting on the prices of wares"-rule to the Forum rules.

Just checked my second Japanese CD issue from 1991 (MVCI-23013) and it has the unedited 10+ minutes version.

Don't know if you posted there, but posts in the Politics/Religion forum don't count anymore.

The Ivory Coast v. Portugal game was not bad. Ivory Coast were the better team and deserved to win, but a draw is OK. Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo's performance was far below par. He once again displayed his mannerisms, dives and egotripping, exactly why I dislike him so much

Another dismal game. So far the level of this tournament is very disappointing.

A disappointment for the organizers, I guess. Thanks to the noise of those vuvuzelas it doesn't make any difference for the volume of the sound coming from the crowd...

Japan v. Cameroon is a very, very poor game, one of the worst I've seen so far in this tournament. Ugh.

Only watched part of the second half of the Netherlands v. Denmark game, so I can't really comment. I got the impression that it was neither good nor bad. [correction] Just saw a bit more and it wasn't very good.

A World Cup official has said that they won't be banned. Dutch TV has already turned the "stadium sound" down relative to the commentators' voices after numerous complaints from viewers.

I was talking about viewings in UK pubs and clubs. I know, I was kidding (though I did watch the game in HD at home )

Cahill went for the leg, not the ball. It was an ugly foul, punishable by a red card according to the instructions the referees got from FIFA ahead of the tournament. I didn't see Cacau's foul - if there was one.

A fully justified straight red for Australian Cahill. Ugly foul. Judging by this game, Germany are one of the better teams.

Yeah - that affected all of the viewings in HD at the pubs and clubs. Us cheapskates viewing in non-HD at home were unaffected Was viewing in HD at home and did see it - very clearly, I should add Luckily we don't have any commercial breaks during games, only during half-time. The vuvuzelas are bad enough, we don't need anything on top of that... Poor guy.

Was this date ever released on CD?

What label is yours? This one is One Way Records. Did Blue Note ever issue this in cd form? No, they didn't. So far, the One Way disc is the only CD version

The worst game so far