As if the English team has anything to do with the calls the English referee makes. Besides, I saw the Slovakia game, and honestly, the outcome was about right (and I've no idea where you get three disallowed but valid goals, I only saw one that might or might not have been valid). In the second half Pirlo and Quagliarella brought Italy forward at last and finally produced something that looked remotely like a defending world champion, but when such pressure comes at the price of reduced defending, it's not surprising that there'll be goals on counterattacks.

Italy didn't have much luck, true, but you have to admit that across the three games, they really didn't deserve to go through - or less than Paraguay and Slovakia, anyway.