The 2010 Football World Cup is coming up literally in a couple of hours, and you would be hard pushed to avoid some of the buzz happening around the World Cup at the minute. We are as excited as you guys are, and are frantically getting our football rattles and whistles ready!

As a bit of a resource post, we decided to take a look around the web for some of the best links out there relating to the World cup.

Watch Live Streams

http://www.justin.tv/search?q=Fifa+2010&x=0&y=0

Justin t.v. carried the live opening event, and will likely stream some of the matches during the World cup as well.

http://www.livefootballtvs.com/world-cup-2010/fifa-world-cup-2010-open.html

Live football tv have an area on their site ready for the links as they become available. Watch this space.

World Cup 2010 Schedules and Fixtures

Twitter’s World Cup dedicated pages.

World Cup Schedule Printable – official Fifa Schedule (Printable PDF)

Official FIFA World Cup Schedules web page

Apple Desktop Application containing the fixtures.

Interactive Flash Schedule. Awesome!

World Cup wall chart

http://www.worldcupblog.org/wc_wall_2.pdf

http://www.worldcupblog.org/wc_wall.pdf

T.V. Guides

BBC World cup T.V Guide

ITV Fixture Guide

Official Sites

http://www.sa2010.gov.za/

http://www.fifa.com/index.html

World Cup Coverage – Media

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/worldcup2010

http://www.itv.com/sport/football/fifaworldcup/?intcmp=NAV_HOME1_FIFAWC3

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/

http://www.skysports.com/football/world-cup-2010/0,27014,12097,00.html

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2010/worldcup/

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/?cc=5739&ver=global

http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/

World Cup 2010 iPhone Apps

ESPN 2010 FIFA World Cup

Exclusive coverage of the event is available via this iPhone app. The World Cup hasn’t even started and the content is already great.

iFootball

iFootball brings the latest news about World Football / Soccer from BBC Sports, Yahoo! Euro Sports and ESPN right to your iPhone/iPod Touch instantly, pulling together content from a variety of sources.

World Cup Schedule

Quite a nice little web application, which works in the browser as well as on your iPhone.

Browser Plugins

Footie Fox

FootieFox smoothly integrates on the bottom right of the Firefox browser into the status bar. Stats are available on match scores as they happen.

2010 World Cup Buzz

2010 World Cup Buzz brings the South African World Cup to your browser. With this extension you can now follow your teams progress as they mount their attack on the World Cup. Get World Cup news, betting tips, full fixtures – together with match odds comparisons from trusted bookies.

Fifa World Cup
Saves you lots of time and keeps you on top of your games
From the creator of *Ultimate Football Results* comes an extension specifically for the Fifa World Cup. One click access to all 8 tables. One click access to results, news and fixtures. Fits all screen sizes, Saves you lots of time and keeps you on top of your games

Ultimate Football Results

Simply the fastest and easiest way to view results from the popular football leagues and competitions. Grabs results from multiple pages from BBC SPORT and displays them on one screen. Each window can also scroll individually. Click the League name at the top for fixtures and table options.

Browser Themes

If you are using Firefox as your browser, there are also a number of persona’s and browser themes dedicated to the event, here are some of the browser themes that we’ve found on the web.

FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 – Grass Theme

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/persona/92826

FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/197244

FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 – BRUSHED THEME

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/116217

Predicting the winners

Bing gets some love for showing previous winners in 2006, and an interactive case of who has the best odds! N

http://www.bing.com/visualsearch?g=uk_world_cup_teams&FORM=Z9GE58

aturally, as with most things – there’s also a WordPress plugin for polling your visitors on their thoughts for the outcome of some matches.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/world-cup-predictor/

World Cup 2010 Artwork

A number of pieces of artwork are being created around the web in celebration of the World cup 2010 – here are some of the more interesting bits of work and wallpaper.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/worldcupart/pool/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/sets/72157622475328392/

A Windows 7 Theme is available from Microsoft’s official page

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/personalize

Smashing Magazine have provided some wallpapers for all the team.

The Big Picture showcase some amazing photos leading up to the event.

We’ll be adding to this list of World cup resources as we notice cool stuff popping up. Bookmark and Enjoy!