World Cup Reaction

If you, like many, have been watching the world cup so far, you will have no doubt been witness to the ridiculous claims of this being ‘the worst of all time’, the ball being ‘too round’ or the Vuvuzuelva’s being the cause of both deafness and poor attacking flair.
Now that we are into the second round of games, both of which have been exciting, goal filled displays of international football...can we all please calm the fuck down?
The first round matches, as is the case with all world cups, are often tight, close affairs in which the supposed ‘minnows’ (which, besides Australia, have not stayed true to their stereotype) attempt to hold the bigger teams to draws for a better chance of their own qualification later in the group stage.
Anyone with half an ounce of brain matter would be able to understand the nature of the beginning of any tournament or league, but the media and the general public have been far too quick to dismiss South Africa 2010 and immediately look to find someone or something to blame.
As I’m typing, Nigeria have just gone a man down and it has breathed life into the losing Greece side, who now have 60 minutes to get back into this game, knowing that, as the second round of the group stage, this is now their chance to make a play for that second qualification spot (being that the Argies have all but sewn up top spot). So that’s 3 games of the second round now, which have had 9 goals. That’s 9 goals that have been scored with the ‘far too round and unstable to possibly score with’ new ball and amidst some of the loudest blasts from the South African horn parade. The world cup is certainly swinging into gear, so stop complaining, and sit back and enjoy it. .....and Salpigidis makes it 1-1, now we have another game on our hands.