Justice is served. Wake up now.

The first round of the group stages was a real let down. Few goals, defensive mentality and no teams really playing to win.

All that changed of course and now that the group stages have wrapped up, it turns out World Cup v.2010 has delivered on some truly spectacular surprises.

France, Italy, the US finishing top, South Korea, Uruguay, Robert Green.... the story lines just keep on coming!

There's one thing that football fans worldwide know about and that is the INJUSTICE of the game. That's right, the game touted as so beautiful is too often marred by decisions whether on or off the pitch that fly in the face of our well defined belief in right and wrong. France vs Republic of Ireland for example. Whether through bad calls or bad policy too often we've believed that "it all works itself out in the end" but at the end of the day it doesn't. But now maybe, just maybe, the karma gods are letting us know that they exist after all.

Goodbye France.
Goodbye Italy.
Goodbye Slovenia.
Goodbye Koman Coulibaly.

Now if only we could say goodbye to the likes of Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Celzic, Jim Rome, Ron Cook and others who deem football to be "Un-American". Then we would REALLY believe!

And here's some other food for thought. Who would have thought that South Korea and Japan would advance? I have to say, all in all a pretty decent world cup after all.

By the way, just how devastating was Robert Green's howler? Instead of facing Ghana and then the winner of South Korea/Uruguay to get to the semi finals, England will have to go through Germany and the winner of Argentina/Mexico. Ouch.