With only two days remaining until the final, the World Cup Death Count stands at 63, almost as many people as have died worldwide of Avian Bird Flu.

But the Chinese don't have a monopoly on World Cup Myocardial Infarctions by any stretch of the imagination. In Bangladesh, an Argentinian fan died of a heart attack after his team lost. Likewise, in Malaysia, a heart attack claimed the life of a man who was watching the Argentina-Mexico match.

Good old fashioned hooliganism has not completely disappeared from the World Cup scene, the efforts of German and British police notwithstanding. In Kenya, a fan of Brazil was savagely attacked and beaten to death by two supporters of France after the French victory over Brazil in the Quarter Finals. In Lagos, Nigeria, a man was shot to death by two bandits who had just raided a cyber cafe which was crowded with people watching the World Cup during a local power outage. And finally, the carnage ends, for now, with the first bona fide World Cup Death in the UK, where an eighteen year old man was stabbed following England's defeat.

At least no one has died from the fake soccer balls of death. Yet.

If you missed People Like Us' fantabulous football chant remix show, you can stream the archive in Realaudio here, or you can stream it as an MP3 archive here, or you can download the MP3 here. It's big though - over 65 megs.

In an effort to improve their player's performance and also to track their every movement, players of England's Manchester United Soccer Club may have microchips implanted under their skin.

The fascination with World Cup violence has spawned a new e-mail virus which uses such subject lines as "Soccer Fans Killed Five Teens" to trick people into clicking on the infected attachment.

Thanks to John from Oslo, Amanda and Tommy for news and links.