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Because of the sheer size of South Africa as a country, internal flights are going to be critical
for fans attending the 2010 World Cup Finals.To give a simple example : Cape Town to Johannesburg
is a 17 hour drive and let's face it, no one wants to drive for 17 hours when there's football to
be watched and drinking to be done.
The World Cup is less than six months away and organizers are running into a bit of a problem.
What happens if nobody shows up?
There are two reasons for the slow sales of World Cup tickets: safety and price
Sepp Blatter and FIFA insist that South Africa's violent crime rate is not a problem.
Green Point Stadium, South Africa
Big Story
It's fairly rare that the London Review of Books features an article on football, but it's perhaps
unsurprising that the World Cup in South Africa has prompted one,
by R.
Love 'em or loathe 'em the vuvuzela is set to be the sound of the 2010 South Africa World Cup.
Purchase a genuine vuvuzela trumpet decorated in your team's colors with beads made by women in a
Cape Town township.
The money raised will go towards helping poorer South Africans benefit from the World Cup in their
country.
So 3,000 of the hardcore nutters who might be expected to ruin this year's World Cup are to have
their passports taken away and told not to be naughty for a month. Is this a realistic solution?
They are presumably free to cause mayhem here instead. I'd prefer to have this lot as far away from
the UK as possible.
