The USA Italy match may not have been great football, but it had all the makings of a great movie. I was half expecting to see Sylvester Stallone come on as a sub.

I think the USA will have their work cut out beating Ghana.

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My son commutes to London on the Stansted Express, which serves the airport, and picks up commuters in Harlow on the way to London. Italians and Germans excitedly talking about football. And a bewildered American family phoning home to say they'd arrived safely - "And there's this thing they call the World Cup. It seems like it's a very big thing over here."