Here's the highlights of Saturday’s USA vs. England World Cup game - reenacted with Lego!

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This is really nice. As far as I know, this is Twitter's first stab at creating an event focused dashboard for hashtags. It's pretty cool. You can watch live tweets relating to matches, see previous tweets for previous matches, view popular tweeters and follow country specific hashtags.

I specifically like the little flags that automatically appear when you hashtag any of the countries taking part (using their abbreviation e.g. #ENG) - see below. I think this is probably the first of many of these to come from Twitter. More here.

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These are really nice.

ESPN have released their 2010 World Cup posters. Some of them are really awesome and others are just a bit weird. A lot of them rely on a pretty rubbish stereotypes like the half-Kangaroo Tim Cahill and the Ivory Coast guys riding elephants. I do like some of the detail though. England carrying the burden of 66' is a nice touch.

Oh dear.

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The scene was the 1982 World Cup semifinal between France and West Germany. It was a great game of football - 3-3 after extra time, and then West Germany won (as always) on penalties. The semifinal is mostly remembered for just one thing. Germany goalkeeper Harald Schumacher’s disgusting foul on French defender Patrick Battiston. I say disgusting foul.. the ref actually gave a goal kick to West Germany. Schumacher clearly 'does' Battiston. Not only does he flatten the poor bloke, he knocks 3 teeth out in the process, wanders back to his goal line and places the ball for the goal kick. Germans.

Here it is again from an understanably outraged French perspective:

The good news is that Battiston recovered and continued to play professional for another nine years. West Germany went on to lose to Italy in the final of the 1982 World Cup, courtesy of a goal and THAT celebration from Italy's Marco Tardelli.

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This is pretty cool. Really captured the different styles of the players featured.

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Looks fit to me!

An injured David Beckham gets into a spot of trouble with the England coaches (and Physio Ray Lewin) as he kicks a ball around before a having quick keepy upppy session during an England training session. The naughty LA Galaxy superstar is recovering from an achilles injury that ruled him out of the World Cup.

Nice to see his mischeivious side.

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Zaire defender Ilunga Mwepu clearly thought that the referees whistle meant 'game on' - running from the defensive wall and clattering the ball 60 yards down the pitch. You can see how the referee and all those around Mwepu look genuinely shocked at what happened.

However, there's more to the story. Zaire were the first African nation to play at the World Cup and after losing their opening game against Scotland and then going down a whopping 9-0 against Yugoslavia their leader, Mobuto Sese Soko intervened. After the 9-0 drubbing he sent his presidential guards to threaten the team. If they lost 4-0 to Brazil in their next game none of them would be able to return home..

Poor fella must have been under all sorts of pressure. Zaire lost 3-0.

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Nicely shot advert for Aussie telecoms brand Optus.

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