Road trip - Uruguay v South Korea

So we're back in Port Elizabeth and have just finished covering the slightly damp Uruguay v South Korea 2nd round knockout game.

Arriving in PE this morning the weather was wonderful with blue skies and a warm breeze blowing off the Indian Ocean, surely we wouldn't need our wet weather gear... surely! Luckily I've been bitten by UK weather so many times during sporting events that sense prevailed and I stuffed jacket, trousers and lens covers into a bag. Just before half time I was feeling pretty smug as the heavens opened over the Nelson Mandela Bay stadium and that warm breeze I enjoyed earlier started blowing the rain horizontally at us. It reminded me less of Indian Ocean and more of Wales!

The game was a mixed bag with a couple of great goals by Suarez and a really entertaining Korean attacking display. I felt for the Korean fans at the final whistle as they've been excellent in their support throughout the tournament and that helpless feeling of having your team knocked out is nasty. I only hope we aren't feeling that tomorrow night.

So now that this game is over we're off to a small town called Cradock a few hundred KM's north of PE where we'll crash for the night before heading to Bloemfontein in the morning for *THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME OF FOOTBALL EVER* between Germany and England. Hopefully I'll be able to write some rubbish from there before and after the game and give you a little behind the scenes view of a World Cup classic (hopefully).

Here's some pics of tonight's game in the mean time.