The latest batch of 400,000 tickets for the World Cup is now on sale and they are not selling too well apparently.Blatter expressed his worries about ticket sales by saying things like....
"Every year 11 million tourists go to South Africa and nobody says they should not go there," he said. "It's a kind of anti-Africa prejudice. I think there is still in the so-called Old World a feeling that 'why the hell should Africa organise a World Cup'. Colonialists over the past 100 years have gone to Africa and taken out all the best things -- and now they are taking all the best footballers. There's no respect."
Further mind bogglingly profound observations on security for the World Cup and about how wrong it is to imagine that anything like what happened to the Togolese team in Angola could happen in SA can be found here..
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