U20WC: Group F - GER | UZB | FIJ | HON

I wouldn't trust that website at all - it's a site anyone can post an article on with no real quality control.

Writers on that site are only paid if they get a lot of hits.

Who is the guy who wrote that?

We have no information as to his credibility.

A Google search shows no other articles on this topic - so I doubt that it's credible.

About that website:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2014/f...

"... is popularity a sound measure of the quality and credibility of content? The News Hub could end up churning out articles with SEO ["Search Engine Optimization"] terms in headlines that fail to deliver on content; as Beckett points out, even sites which rely on social media sharing like BuzzFeed are "getting better as they hire journalists to do their content. The reason Caitlin Moran at the Times gets paid is because she is a stand-out writer".

I suggest that the phrase "Search Engine Optimization terms in headlines" is the operative one here.

The writer has made something up hoping for lots of hits riding on the FIFA corruption bandwagon.

A Fiji draw with Uzbekistan will put them through to the next round (assuming Germany beat Honduras) - just amazing !!!

I hope it's a close, exciting game even if they do lose... 

Really looking forward to tomorrow's double header at AMI Stadium and seeing Brazil live for the first time in the tournament.

They've been pretty awesome so far.

Hope there's a good croud because the weather forecast is good for Chch tomorrow.

top day here in Chch. 13000 as a minimum please. 

Be great if Fiji can nck a draw up North!

Actually, I realised after Monday's matches that this is the matchday that the bloke at FIFA's Chch HQ was talking about when he told me that 12,000 tickets had been sold. (I was there to collect disabled parking permits for my mate).

I thought he meant the opening round but he must have been talking about this one. 

Perfect weather approaching mid-day in the Garden ("we have lots of gardens but no buildings") City:

Blue sky, sun and no wind.

Cmon Fiji!

love the country emblem of Honduras being a capital H 

Honduras 1-1 v Germany!

2-1 to Germany.  Nil nil in Fiji Uzbeks match

So Fiji would be second and play Austria? Wow, they have really achieved a lot

Really hope Fiji pull through

Fiji keeper should have kept that

German 3 Honduras 1, Uzbekistan 2 Fiji 0

Oh dear Fiji Gk

Germany 4 Honduras 1

A few seagulls in Whangarei!

Germany leading 5-1 over Honduras

The Uzbeks have scored again 3-0 over Fiji

and it's all over for Group F

Watching the Fijians celebrating everytime they scored a goal was a highlight of the tournament. These guys came expecting nothing and won a lot of plaudits especially after their win which they deserved. Well done to them. Could they become competitive in the next 5 years at a more senior level?

Hopefully 15000 again for Germany v Nigeria on Thursday.

fiji were fine, could have snatched it with a little better finishing. But their keeper was woeful from the start and ultimately he cost them the game. Shame really.

There was no report whatsoever on the Christchurch double header in the Press newspaper on Monday.

All there was was a photo of some Brazil players celebrating a goal.

There was one sentence mentioning the results of the two games tacked on to the end of a preview of the New Zealand team's next game.

Despite this being one of the biggest sport events of the year with one of the biggest crouds (15,928 for the second game). That's more than the Crusaders have been pulling this year.

A new low point in Press football coverage.

Agree entirely two of the greatest International Football nations on the same bill. A  16,000 (plus plenty)

 croud and bugger all coverage. Shame on our local press. Having said that what a great afternoon out.

Just seen the Nigerians training, really looking forward to their clash with Germany. A complete contrast in styles on display.

Enjoy it guys, we do not see this level of athleticism, skill and teamwork very often.

Coastal v CTFC will go close on Saturday!

Yeah, It's a Fairfax paper so par for the course...

 Fairfax titles include the Sunday Star-Times, Dominion Post, Waikato Times and the Press.

I sent a Letter to the Editor complaining - so let's see if they publish it.

Fairfax are increasingly moving away from a focus on their print media towards digital and a couple of weeks ago announced a new policy to do away with local editors, including sports editors and instead institute national editors for various departments including sport.

180 positions at Fairfax nationally were disestablished and 160 journalists asked to reapply for jobs under new descriptions.

I  suspect that the Press and the Dominion Post as a result of Fairfax's restructuring, no longer even have their own sports editors.

You can see this is resulting in not bothering with covering local sports events in papers like the Press and Dominion Post with local sports reporters mostly commissioned to write stories to fit into their national digital strategy.

Not only was there no report on Sundays U-20 World Cup double header in Monday's Press newspaper, there was actually no report on Saturday's Canterbury Crusaders Super I5 rugby win over the Blues. Instead they published a generic Super 15 roundup article which didn't even mention the Crusaders game but was knocked off to cheaply provide one article for all their publications and save on paying local sports reporters to actually attend games involving local sides.

It seems counter-productive to reduce print content if they still want to sell newspapers.

The next step will be to introduce pay walls for the Stuff website etc. as this is what Fairfax have done in Australia.

The owners of the NZ Herald will inevitably start charging for access to their website too within the next couple of years...