Everyone in India watches cricket. So sports channels save huge money by showing cricket round the clock and apart from a little football show no real sports such as rugby, boxing and american football. With the start of the World Cup suddenly football experts seem to be crawling out of the woodwork. Read what foreign newspapers are saying find a few famous names from the past such as Jairzinho or DiStefano and suddenly you are qualified to write columns for daily newspapers secure in the knowledge that most people are as clueless as you are. One fat idiot had a go at Robert Green, the English goalkeeper, whose howler allowed the USA to level the match at one all, using adjectives only to be found in a thesaurus. Sure Green made a mistake as all humans do but did he lose two points for England. Certainly not. Before the start of the tournament English papers were confident that Wayne Rooney was capable of winning the cup singlehandedly and the addition of Gerrard, Lampard and others just made it child's play. Messrs Rooney, Lampard and Gerrard earn at least twice what Green earns so should have scored more than the solitary Gerrard effort. They missed all their chances and hence are equally or more culpable. As for the vuvuzellas, they have been described as a part of South African culture by a minister. If a cheap plastic instrument which makes a buzzing noise without tune or rhythm is culture then it is a sorry state of affairs. On the other hand the infernal noise prevents fans from chanting insults at opposite set of fans as well as racial insults and probably prevents fights. So is it good or bad? Anything made in China has to be rubbish.