Well, the end is in sight, and on tonight's World Cup Daily podcast, James Richardson, Barry Glendenning and Tom Lutz get ever-so-slightly excited about the first of the semi-finals.
We hear from Gilmar Deledon in Montevideo about Uruguay's magnificent tournament, while Fokko Ebbens from the www.depers.nl/ newspaper in Amsterdam tells us why sexy football is dead - and why Dirk Kuyt is the embodiment of Holland's newly pragmatic approach to the once-beautiful game.
We'll be back tomorrow with the post mortem of the game, and we'll hear from Sid Lowe and Rafa Honigstein about the other semi - Spain-Germany.
