Take on the confront of leading your home nation from qualification right through to a virtual re-creation of the fifa world cup Final and feel what it is like to score the goal that lifts a nation. Every four years the football world gets mutually for the first showing tournament in the sport, and the World Cup 2010 football tournament is shaping up to be an exciting one.

For the record, the vuvuzela is not my enemy — and I even have, for reasons of self-defence installed a mini-vuvu with surprisingly powerful performance levels around my neck — though I miss hearing the crescendo of noise from the crowd that should accompany a promising attack on goal or a goal itself. Instead, of course, there is the monotone drone — a constant that belies the ebbs and flows of a game.

Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he?

FIFA should show the world that it is truly a global organisation.

Nobody is offered a World Cup.

It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.