South Africa 1-1 Mexico

Commentators everywhere exausted the old favourite "My Big Book Of Cliches" today, as World Cup hosts, underdogs, laughing stock and heartwarmers South Africa earned a vital point in what can only be described as a victory for world cup football.
South Africa, participating in only their third world cup competition, fielded a decent side considering their stature, whilst Mexico chose an unnamed side to the one that played England many moons back.
The match started in belated fashion, with FIFA president Sepp Blatter addressing each and every fan in the stadium, by calling them "friend", before doing his best "Inbetweeners" impression. Then the game began.
Mexico took the early initiative, pushing bafana bafana back throughout the first half, though chances were few and far between. Former West Ham starlet Franco missed a sitter, and Tottenham Hotspurs "player" Giovanni Dos Santos bossed play for nigh on 30 minutes, before a solid chance was made by the Mexicans.
A corner swung in, and met by the boot of Carlos Vela, and in the back of the net. Yet he was offside, dispite Pinaar being on the far post. I thought the offside rule was easy, but that blew my mind.
The last two minutes saw a frenzy of chances squandered by South Africa, and then the whistle was blown. The first half of the first game of the first African world cup was over. It was alright.

The second half was a great improvement on the first. Bafana Bafana clearly re-vitalized by the half time break, began to attack and press the Mexicans, yet they held resiliant. Then, out of nowhere, a beautiful pass to Shabalaba, or somthing along those lines, struck the balloon so sweetly, and scored a wonderful goal. Peter Drury claimed it was "a goal for Africa". The ITV servers crashed as football and geography fans everywhere had to tell Drury that Africa is a continent, not a nation. He never amended his mistake.
More midfield based football led to the Mexican equalizer, against the run of play. South Africa left 11 men unmarked at the back of the box, and Marquez of Barcelona slotted home. 1-1.

To be perfectly honest with you, nothing happened after that. South Africa had another go at scoring, but nothing doing. Mphela broke free of the Mexican defence in the dying minutes, yet his effort struck the post and wide.

So the first game ended 1-1, and if the rest of the tournament is like this game we'll have a great tournament on our hands.