I wasn't all that impressed by Avatar, but I suppose it's better than the realism of Vietnam. Japan, on the other hand, were impressed, so they've blown their attempt for World Cup 2022 into the 'Avatar' of World Cup bids, though that title may be unofficial, and they may not even want it.

D.C. United's owner is now officially on Twitter. And it is awesome.

Among his recent tweets:

• "@nffc65 I'm in the tech biz....I need to look serious. I promise I will let my hair down when I get to Lot 8"
• "just caught up with Curt...got an update on his trip. couple of interesting prospects on our radar screen.

3D TV is coming and the World Cup 2010 is set to be the launch pad.
Sony is leading the charge and is betting its integrated entertainment business that you will buy a new TV set to watch your football heroes come to life. Afterall, 2006 was the catalyst for popular launches and takeup of a range of new TV technologies.

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It's Arsenal..It's United..It's 3D!

This coming Sunday, the battle lines will be clearly ear-marked as the Gunners face the 'Red Dolls' on their own turf i.e. the Emirates. Unlike the last few seasons, when the fixture was of not much consequence, it will be this time, if bare statistics are to be kept in mind.

For those who haven't dressed up their blogs and websites yet, here are some free 2010 World Cup flagtags, Icons and Badges for all 32 teams.

Get a Flagtag

We haven't even seen all the teams play, so it is time to show which team you support, show your pride by decorating your website or blog with your national flag.

On the few occasions that we've sat at pitch level during a football match, we've always been amazed at the stunning lack of depth perception you get compared to sitting higher up. From this ground level perspective, you can hardly see the space between players; everyone seems to be stepping on each other's toes.

It looks like zio Ranieri is getting himself all worked up or rather, excited over the possibility of the ToniTotti pairing for Roma this weekend against Genova. He even compared the spectacle to Drogba's favourite film, Avatar!

Hopefully you've noticed already, but... we've recently upgraded the comments system here on the World Cup Blog front page. We're now using the shiny new Disqus (pronounced "discuss", if you were wondering).

Using Disqus means we'll be able to better handle the army of spammers who seem intent on selling us jewelery and Air Jordans via grammaticality questionable comments.

Is this the future of the World Cup?

ESPN's use of the World Cup as a launching pad for broadcasting sports in 3D has been highly publicized. If the demand for the extra dimension is as high as some are predicting the World Cup could lead to an entirely separate broadcast station, ESPN 3D.

Who amongst us doesn't like a freebie! Here's a chance to win an absolutely fabulous Cesc Shirt.

Our good friend Leanne, whose popularity through her online avatar of LadyArse has reached near cult level status, has very kindly agreed to partner us in giving our readers a chance to win one of her personal creations.

After the first round of the competition, the gooner part of BigFourZa was shocked to find that leading the way in the race to find the funniest caption was a Chelsea fan with although an admittedly hilarious one liner.

Now I think it would be sacrilege to let a fantastic Cesc tee go to a Chelsea fan, so COYGooners.

Right, so BigFourZa had set up a caption contest in collaboration with LadyArse which gave our readers a chance to win, or give away after winning if you're not particularly attached to Cesc Fabregas, a superb Cesc T-shirt.

After many PT jokes, attempted Diaby jokes and groin references, we finally have our winner.