Italy vs Slovakia

Watched the last twenty minutes of this on ITVsomething this morning before work, so I guess I'm highly qualified to write about it.

1) I cannot believe, can not believe, that an Italy defence conceeded a goal from first phase posession from a throw in. A throw in! What the fuck.

2) Quaglierella (sp?): quick, skilfull, direct, daring ... why on earth did they not use him sooner than this game? A lovely goal as well.

3) They really missed Buffon.

4) Sad to see Cannavaro reduced to that level. He was one of the all time great centre halves, easily the best I've seen. And I saw Andy Linighan. Chiellini looked pretty crappy as well: his one man tour de force against Villa and Torres in Euro 2008 is starting to look the exception rather than the rule.

5) This is by far the worst Italian side I've ever seen, and probably the worst for at least 50 years. They don't really have anyone who can look back at think they did themselves any justice, Quaglierella possibly?

6) A fantastic last twenty odd minutes though, and well played Slovakia: their first World Cup and into the knockout stages.

7) The contretemps in the net after the game is good enough for a bat shit crazy bastards by the way; there haven't been enough of those yet really, hopefully the Uruguayans will start kicking the Skoreans and get some fly-kicks back on Saturday (which, by the way, is both the least and most attractive looking knockout stage day I've ever seen).