And Now Updates from our pitchside blogger in South Africa live in South Africa. He is.
7': The nickname of Spain's goalie Iker Casillas is Saint Iker. They call him this because he drove all the snakes out of Spain. However, unlike Saint Patrick's Day in modern times when the occasion is celebrated through drunkeness, in today's age Saint Iker's Day is marked by self mutilation.
10': Update on Capdevilla's injury that resulted in him rolling on the ground, crying out in agony, clutching both his ACLs like they were trying to bust out of his knees....he's back up and on.
16': Player most likely to Zidane someone in the 2010 final: English referee Howard Webb and his shiney dome.
18': David Villa looks European
20': The biggest winner from the BP Oil Disaster...Castrol. That shit must have been public relations gold for them.
24': Mark Van Bommell plays like it's a game of FIFA and he's losing by 4 goals and just mashing the 'X' button except he does it the entire game. And he exsists in reality.
28': Well folks one of the large subplots developing here is that Spanish fans would like to win so they can party tonight while the corrolary to that is that Dutch fans want to win so that they can party as well.
29': Nigel De Jong Lu Kang's into Xabi Alonso's chest. De Jong makes a strong case to be put beside Webb in the Zidane contest.
31': Nelson Mandela! But no Matt Damon.
32': Yet.
34': I wonder if at all Holland games they have trouble distinguishing whose part of the crowd versus whose part of security. I bet a lot of normal average holland fans end up ground level by the end of games because there in all orange.
42': And if you increase security to deal with this problem you're actually only making it worse.
45': Half time 0-0. Spain have looked the better side but Holland has grown into the game. I think they'll have more confidence going into the second half like a guy who hasn't gotten laid in a while but is having a good conversation with this girl at a party and he's like "Hey, what do we have here? Maybe, just maybe..." to himself
Halftime Break