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The Team: South Africa will be the other 31 nation's hospitable host during the upcoming 2010 World Cup. Well, at least we all hope so. Sure, there were fears that this nation would never be ready for the World's biggest tourney, but as of the writing of this post everything seems to be on schedule.

After the West Ham takeover by David Sullivan and David Gold, it seems the team is in for a fitting revamp. The new buyers with 50% stake and full administrative and decision making authority are seeking new players. According to latest reports, they have shown interest in Real Madrid striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Blackburn's [.

"That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose."

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is which striker have we been linked with this morning, and what his lousy goalscoring record is like, and how his club were fed up with him before we approached, and all that David Di Michele kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Reuters Tuesday, June 1, 2010 16:40 IST Johannesburg: South Africa's all-time leading scorer Benni McCarthy was one of five players cut from the World Cup hosts' squad on Tuesday as coach Carlos Alberto Parreira settled on his 23 players for the June 11-July tournament. The decision to ditch McCarth .