The BBC rocks...further...

Ok, I was trying to hunt down video of the Beckham goal against Paraguay on Sunday (eventually found via YouTube, thank you, internet community). In the process I found the BBC's virtual highlights of the match.

They apparently don't have the rights to put the actual highlights online, but they've gotten somebody to make animations of all the shots (just the shooter and the goalie in the nicely rendered stadium), any cards (just ref and offender), and of one or two key plays in each game. For the key plays (click on Highlights in Detail) you can see every player on the field, what he did during the play, where the ref was, and it can all be done from any of dozens of different camera angles. You've got the ability to zoom in and out and to speed up and slow down the virtual highlights.

Fabulous stuff...