The Kickoff

So just four more days for the mega event to kick off.I'm all excited about a month of great football action.Rightly so my eyes are already glued on to the television.Almost all the channels are telecasting some shows about football, be it VH1 or NGC.But ESS is still showing some cricket match..that too Test Cricket match - with a Gemany world cup 2006 logo on the screen..duh.

Came across this site worldcupblog.org. It doesn't offer any expert opinion on the games played/reviews and at times also manages to give some trivial facts about the games.Also it has the individual countries pages.(Click on the maps on the top of the page to access the same). Ofcourse the reports about the games in these pages are going to be biased and so it could be more fun. If you have the habit of browsing through the sports pages of BBC then you would understand what I mean by 'fun' here.Apart from the fun part you might get some information about links with streaming live video of the games played.They managed it for the friendlies and so I hope there should be more for the world cup matches.

I do hear from some guys at my workplace that the cablewallahs have assured them about the possibility of watching some matches without the set-top-box with just a meagre extra money than the usual.And they are all excited about it.I'm not sure if there is even 1% truth in it.But I really do hope its true.