The vuvuzelas need to go simply on the basis that the players themselves often find communicating to one another difficult. Atmosphere's one thing, but in actual fact there's no change in volume from the run-up to a goal and its immediate aftermath. It's impossible to distinguish crowds, chants, etc. If anything, it's replaced atmosphere.

As for Maradona, he's not a good tactician. Argentina will be undone quite easily against a stronger, more balanced team, such as Germany.

I don't know; probably not. The problem - if you were suggesting there is one - hasn't anything to do with lack of goals, it's that the quality of football (because football is more than putting balls in a net) has so far been so utterly shite. Too many games are 'in need of a goal to liven things up'. The play itself has been pretty messy.