Day 3 and what's worse, those horns or the ball?

I am really enjoying the World Cup as are many other but i do have two major complaints, the noise of the vuvuzuela and the flight of the Adidas Jublani ball.

For the uninitiated, the vuvuzuelas are the plastic horns the fans are blowing at the stadium that sound like a swarm of flies (and what do flies swarm round?). Some fans have complained and many people watching on tv have complained and now even the players are unhappy. France captain Patrice Evra is definatly not a fan,

"We can't sleep at night because of the vuvuzuelas. People start playing them from 6a.m. We can't hear on another out on the pitch"

World Cup organising committee boss Danny Jordaan has admitted that banning the vuvuzuela is a possibility but can they stop and search every fan for plastic horns (good job Jordan isn't attending matches)?

On the other hand, the match ball. The Adidas Jublani ball that's been manufactured specially for this tournament. Multiple goalkeepers have complained about the odd flight of the ball and we've already seen more than one goalkeeping disaster which may or may not of been the Jublani's fault.....but FIFA has contractual obligations with Adidas so as money is involved, we won't see a change of the ball, let's hope the tournament isn't remembered for the ball and plastic horns.

Another thing to address is the amount of sending off's, three games today and three more sending's off, it seems either players haven't paid attention to warning before the tournament or referees are interpreting the rules individually.

Today's first game saw England's fellow group members Algeria face Slovenia in a match Slovenia impressed in getting a 1-0 from captain and former West Brom player Robert Koren (the goal was another long range effort where the ball bounced just before the 'keeper and they seemed to miss it entirely, while this may make England's Robert Green feel better, you have to seriously wonder about this ball, if i was to mean a team lost the final, is that fair/), it's no coincidence that after Algerian Abdelkader Chezzal was sent off, Slovenia scored, the favourites Algeria just never seemed interesting whereas the Slovenians played with all the passion expected at the World Cup, expect them to cause a few problems against the England midfield.

The big game of the day for me was Ghana vs Serbia and it followed the pattern of most games so far, slow build up play and one team screws up and has a player sent off, the other team wins, Lukovic may be unlucky to of been sent off for his two yellow cards but Ghana worked the harder and Serbia will find it hard to get out the group now after this defeat, they lack flair and a creative spark and Ghana could be THE African nation to watch.

The main event saw Germany (ironic they seemed so strong on the right wing) hammer poor Australia, if this was a boxing match, the referee would of stopped it well before the final whistle and 4-0 scoreline, the Aussies sadly just didn't seem on the same level as the much depleted German team, having Tim Cahill sent off means in my opinion they are highly unlucky to get through the group with him missing the next game against Ghana, people may get carried away with the German performance but the Australians were poor, i expected more from them.