ARGENTINA 4-1 SOUTH KOREA

It's all happening now - Diego(Maradona not Forlan)'s boys have found their ruthless streak, which spells danger.

Although, on this evidence, danger could be spelt M-e-s-s-i, because Lionel looks more and more special, and here seemed less determined to score 'that goal'. I can only assume he's been reading the blog.

After Argentina's first goal, Maradona was seen bouncing around the technical area looking for somebody to hug. It was, frankly, embarrassing. He looked like the unpopular kid at school; trying to be in the cool kids' gang.

This made me wonder how much credit The Squat One will get if his immensly-talented squad take the World Cup back to Buenos Aires. But perhaps I'm reading too much into it. Although when the next goal went in, he quickly, and aggressively, bear-hugged the nearest, unfortunate, member of coaching staff before they had any chance to recoil.



Finally: the vuvezelas were a bit annoying in this one. Primarily at the second goal. Because there was an offside shout, Peter Drury went momentarily silent, waiting to see if a flag had been raised.

His silence highlighted the crowd noise, which had remained exactly the same regardless of whether or not a goal had been scored. Real shame.

Oh well... Tubby Custard!

THE STORY SO FAR

Match of the tournament: Spain 0-1 Switzerland

Player of the tournament: Diego Forlan (Uruguay)

Goal of the tournament: Tshabalala (South Africa v Mexico)