Category Archives: world cup 2010

So backward…

By 6000 | 6000 | November 15, 2011

Astounding news today that the Western Province Rugby Union (WPRU) have blocked the much anticipated “exhibition” Heineken Cup game between Saracens and Biarritz from being played at the Cape Town Stadium, stating: The WPRFU Executive Committee decided that the home of rugby, Newlands, would stage this historic match. According to the South African Rugby Union [...]

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Coldplay in Cape Town: transport & event details

By 6000 | 6000 | October 3, 2011

This sort of information is always done to death on the local interwebs, but even after numerous big events there still remains a subsection of the stadium-visiting public who reckon they should be able to drive up to the stadium gates, park by the turnstiles and simply pop in – and then get pissed off and [...]

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Missing

By 6000 | 6000 | June 27, 2011

I decided to take the weekend off from blogging and all in all, it went quite well, aside from the monumental guilt I felt for not blogging. I know that when I don’t blog, I lose readers, but equally, I’m aware that when I blog badly, I also lose readers. It’s at times like this [...]

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Heads up!

By 6000 | 6000 | June 12, 2011

No big announcement, as you may have expected from the title of this post, merely this from the very same weekend a year ago. That’s France’s Jeremy Toulalan and Uruguay’s Alvaro Pereira challenging for a ball which I comprehensively failed to get in shot. This was the second game of the tournament after the Bafana Bafana v [...]

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At first I was like…

By 6000 | 6000 | April 19, 2011

… what a beautiful piece of architecture. But then, when you look at it from this angle: I don’t think they got it quite straight. Thankfully, I don’t think anyone else has noticed. Yet.

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