Category Archives: world cup 2010

Cape Town Rugby Festival – a few thoughts

By 6000 | 6000 | February 7, 2010

How any rugby fan could possibly ever complain about vuvuzelas after yesterday’s inaugural rugby match at the Cape Town Stadium is beyond me. At least they make you realise that you’re at a major sporting event. As for yesterday, I have experienced more atmosphere on the moon. Not personally, obviously, but my good friend Buzz [...]

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Doubling up

By 6000 | 6000 | February 5, 2010

After the huge success of the opening football match at the Cape Town Stadium, the next test comes tomorrow when the crowd limit is doubled from the 20,000 that watched the football to 40,000 for the Stormers v Boland rugby clash. And while they are testing the stadium for World Cup readiness, I am going to [...]

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Peter Delmar – Greed killing our World Cup prospects

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2010

Following on from my Ashanti Lodge post (and their manager’s “charmless reply“), this from Peter Delmar in The Times yesterday: You can stay at the two-star B&B for under R600 a night per room, including breakfast, which is about as much as it’s worth. But, the proprietor told me, she was doubling the price for the [...]

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Short-sighted Idiots

By 6000 | 6000 | January 28, 2010

As FIFA announced that 2 million tickets had been sold for the 2010 World Cup in June and took a well-justified pot shot at the idiots in the German and English media and “football family” (Uli Hoeness and Phil “Sphincter Face” Brown, they mean you) who keep taking unjustified pot shots at South Africa, [a [...]

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Nearly there

By 6000 | 6000 | January 25, 2010

Feeling horrible and lying in bed sweating, shaking, swearing and farting. Have a picture from the weekend, when I felt better. 5 days to a year of continuous blogging.

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