But that's not the issue right now, we've got some soccer to take care of! New Zealand is no longer in the running for the World Cup, but their win against Bahrain last year wasn't for nothing because while the 1982 side lost all their games, the 2010 side drew all their games. I bet their sights are now set on a vuvuzela-free tournament in Brazil in four years' time.
But before we go into the details, here's how the defending champions handled Slovakia: they crashed and burned; the score was 3-2 to Slovakia in a match where seven players were booked. Now onto the game against Paraguay: it was a 0-0 draw with three players receiving yellow cards.
A few hours later, Denmark lost 3-1 to Japan and five players in total were booked in that match. Meanwhile, two-time finalists Netherlands took on Cameroon (the only republic in the group) and beat them 2-1 in a match that also had five yellow cards. One unexpected event from the latter is when Rigobert Song came on for Cameroon in the 73rd minute - he's the only person other than Zinedine Zidane who had been red-carded in two different World Cup tournaments.
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